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

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-149392

Description

xvii, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Painting, American.
Painting, Modern 19th century
Social life and customs Pictorial works. 19th century

Originator

Lubin, David M.

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.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press

Description

xvii, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references p. (321-358) and index.

ISBN

0300057326

Call Number

Stacks ND210.L83 1994

Places

United States.
United States

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