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

by John Fagg

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271094001
• ISBN13: 9780271094007
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"