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American Genre Painting: The Politics Of Everyday Life
Author: Johns, Elizabeth
Hardback; Book; 55 B&w and 25 Colour Illustrations, Notes, Index
268 pages
Published: January 1992
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300050194

American genre painting flourished in the 30 years before the Civil War and far from reflecting Jacksonian optimism and faith in the common man, Johns argues that these paintings had a social function that related in a more significant and less idealistic way to the cultural life of the times.



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