Bibliograph

Picturing a nation, art and social change in nineteenth-century America, David M. Lubin

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Label

Picturing a nation, art and social change in nineteenth-century America, David M. Lubin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references pages (321-358) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Picturing a nation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

27974828

Responsibility statement

David M. Lubin

Series statement

Yale publications in the history of art

Sub title

art and social change in nineteenth-century America

Summary

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

The politics of method -- Labyrinths of meaning in Vanderlyn's Ariadne -- Bingham's Boone -- Reconstructing Duncanson -- Lilly Martin Spencer's domestic genre painting in antebellum America -- Guys and dolls : framing femininity in post-Civil War America -- Masculinity, nostalgia, and the trompe l'oeil still-life paintings of William Harnett

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