American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
Hardcover
1991 · New Haven
by Johns, Elizabeth
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Red cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 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 #: 3225)