American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life

Name: American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
Author: Elizabeth Johns
ISBN: 9780300057546

Author Elizabeth Johns

Publisher Yale University Press

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Author(s)Elizabeth Johns

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN / ASIN0300057547

ISBN-139780300057546

AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours

Sales Rank1,425,850

MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Probing beneath the everyday blissfulness of American genre painting, Johns analyzes various works and reveals that these paintings did not reflect faith in the common man but served rather to reinforce feelings of superiority among political and social leaders of antebellum America.