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Rendering Violence - Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art (Hardcover)
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Rendering Violence - Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art (Hardcover)
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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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