Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art - Couverture rigide

Barrett, Ross

 
9780520282896: Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art
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ISBN 10 : 0520282892 ISBN 13 : 9780520282896
Editeur : University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

Rendering Violence explores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently. Examining a range of critical texts, this book shows for the first time that nineteenth-century American aesthetic theory defined painting as a privileged vehicle for the representation of political order and the stabilization of liberal-democratic life. Analyzing seven paintings by Thomas Cole, John Quidor, Nathaniel Jocelyn, George Henry Hall, Thomas Nast, Martin Leisser, and Robert Koehler, Ross Barrett reconstructs the strategies that American artists developed to explore the symbolic power of violence in a medium aligned ideologically with lawful democracy. He argues that American paintings of upheaval "render" their subjects in divergent ways. By exploring the inner conflicts that structure these painterly projects, Barrett sheds new light on the politicized pressures that shaped visual representation in the nineteenth century and on the anxieties and ambivalences that have long defined American responses to political turmoil.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ross Barrett is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina. He has published articles in The Art Bulletin, American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio, along with catalog essays and entries on American painting and vernacular photography. He is also coeditor, with Daniel Worden, of Oil Culture, a volume of essays that examines cultural representations of petroleum and the oil industry.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520282892
ISBN 13 
9780520282896
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
244
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