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

Yale Publications in the History of Art

by Professor David M. Lubin

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.

Genres: Art

382 pages, Hardcover

First published May 25, 1994

Reviews

[Louis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chapter 3 "Reconstructing Duncanson" is by far one of the most illuminating essays on one of the few African American landscape artist of the 19th Century.

A must read.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

American art,cultural history,American history

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lubin's exploration of American art is engaging and well-written. I'm told that he talks like he writes. He must be great to listen to.