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

Explores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period in which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently.

List of contents

Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

1. How Could a Mob Be Painted? Picturing Political Violence in the Jacksonian Era 
2. Painting That “Might Prove Injurious”: Cinque and the Representation of African American Political Violence 
3. Riot, Rowdyism, and Reform: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of Midcentury Urban Upheaval 
4. Trouble on the Home Front: Art, Democracy, and Disorder during the Civil War 
5. Painting and Political Violence at Century’s End 

Conclusion 
Notes 
List of Illustrations 
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

"[Barrett's] arguments not only convince, but also lay out an analytical framework applicable to the rendering of political violence today. This book represents a superb piece of scholarship."

Product details

• Authors: Ross Barrett, Barrett Ross
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2014
• EAN: 9780520282896
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28289-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, ART / History / General, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political activism, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Political activism / Political engagement