The New England Quarterly · 1995 · 33 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesArt HistoryHistoryAmerican ArtSocial HistoryVisual CultureAmerican PhotographyNineteenth-century American PaintingVisual ArtsNational Identity In PaintingNineteenth-century American ArtNineteenth-century HistoriographySocial Change ModelsSocial Change Narratives
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.