Softcover
1991 · New Haven
by Johns, Elizabeth
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Softcover. G+ Front cover torn at bottom of spine. Wear to wrap and page corners. Slight tanning to page edges. Otherwise clean and tight.. Tan wraps with color illustration and red lettering. 250 pp. 25 color, 55 bw plates. Johns presents a fresh look at the idea of why genre paintings were so popular, and what their social function might have been. Nice plates, 40 pages of explanatory notes at end, followed by index.
(Inventory #: 165049)