American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life

by Elizabeth Johns

$30 · Offered by Mullen Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Red cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 250 pp. 25 color, 55 bw plates. VG+/VG+. Item #3225 ISBN: 9780300050196 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.

• Binding: Hardcover

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