num_pages: 382
description: 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.
language: English
title: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
titlecomplete: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale Publications in the History of Art)
genres: Art
ratings_count: 11
series: Yale Publications in the History of Art
publisher: Yale University Press