Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

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

Catalog Data

Author:
Lubin, David M  Search this
Subject:
Vanderlyn, John 1775-1852  Search this
Bingham, George Caleb 1811-1879  Search this
Duncanson, Robert S. 1821-1872  Search this
Spencer, Lilly Martin 1822-1902  Search this
Harnett, William Michael 1848-1892  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Place:
United States
Date:
1994
C1994
19th century
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
Topic:
Painting, American  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_462042