Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America

David M Lubin (author)

Hardback (06 Jun 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Examines six American artists: John Vanderlyn, George Caleb Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, Robert Duncanson, Seymour Guy, and William Harnett. This study describes how the images in their paintings both embraced and resisted the world around them - including its underlying social conflicts.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780300057324
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Pub date:	06 Jun 1994
DEWEY:	759.1309034
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	384
Weight:	1550g
Height:	254mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	33mm