Picturing a Nation

Picturing a Nation
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 0300057326
ISBN-13 : 9780300057324
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Book Synopsis Picturing a Nation by : David M. Lubin

Download or read book Picturing a Nation written by David M. Lubin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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