American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
Book Details
Author(s)
Elizabeth Johns
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0300057547
ISBN-13
9780300057546
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#1,425,850
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Description
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.
