Re-Envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

by John Fagg

Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and others, who adapted such subjects to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art. Re-envisioning the Everyday asks what their works do to the tradition of genre painting and whether it remains a meaningful category...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271093994
• ISBN13: 9780271093994
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.2"