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Author:

Barrett, Ross, 1977-

Title:

Rendering violence : riots, strikes, and upheaval in nineteenth-century American art / Ross Barrett.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Subject:

Violence in art.
Art, American--19th century--Themes, motives.
Art and society--United States--History--19th century.
1800 - 1899

Notes:

Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

0520282892 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520282896 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)872654725

LCCN:

2014007038

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)