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Picturing a nation : art and social change in nineteenth-century America

Title
Picturing a nation : art and social change in nineteenth-century America / David M. Lubin.
Author
Lubin, David M.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
xvii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.
Series Statement
Yale publications in the history of art
Uniform Title
Yale publications in the history of art.
Subject
  • Painting, American
  • Painting, American > 19th century
  • United States > Social life and customs > 19th century > Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Politics of Method -- Ch. 1. Labyrinths of Meaning in Vanderlyn's Ariadne -- Ch. 2. Bingham's Boone -- Ch. 3. Reconstructing Duncanson -- Ch. 4. Lilly Martin Spencer's Domestic Genre Painting in Antebellum America -- Ch. 5. Guys and Dolls: Framing Femininity in Post-Civil War America -- Ch. 6. Masculinity, Nostalgia, and the Trompe l'Oeil Still-Life Paintings of William Harnett.
ISBN
0300057326
LCCN
93019392
OCLC
  • 27974828
  • ocm27974828
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries