Rendering violence
Subtitle: riots, strikes, and upheaval in nineteenth-century American art
By: Ross Barrett
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780520282896
Subjects: Violence in art; American Art; Art and society; Themes, motives; History
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How could a mob be painted? Picturing political violence in the Jacksonian era; title: Painting that 'might prove injurious': Cinque and the representation of African American political violence; title: Riot, rowdyism, and reform: George Henry Hall and the picturing of midcentury urban upheaval; title: Trouble on the home front: art, democracy, and disorder during the Civil War; title: Painting and political violence at century's end.