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Re-envisioning the Everyday - American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945

Inglese · Tascabile

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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, 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 through which to understand them. Working with and against the established narrative of American genre painting's late nineteenth-century decline into obsolescence, John Fagg explores how artists and illustrators used elements of the tradition to picture everyday life in a rapidly changing society, whether by appealing to its nostalgic and historical connotations or by updating it to address new formal and thematic concerns. Fagg argues that genre painting enabled twentieth-century artists to look slowly and carefully at scenes of everyday life and, on some occasions, to understand those scenes as sites of political oppression and resistance. But it also limited them to anachronistic ways of seeing and tied them to a freighted history of stereotyping and condescension. By surveying genre painting when its status and relevance were uncertain and by looking at works that stretch and complicate its boundaries, this book considers what the form is and probes the wider practice of generic categorization. It will appeal to students and scholars of American art history, art criticism, and cultural studies.

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John Fagg is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of On the Cusp: Stephen Crane, George Bellows, and Modernism and curator of Bellows and the Body and New York City Life.

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Autori John Fagg, John (University of Birmingham Fagg, Fagg John
Editore University Presses
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 18.03.2025
 
EAN 9780271094007
ISBN 978-0-271-09400-7
Dimensioni 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
Peso 726 g
Illustrazioni Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
Categorie Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte

ART / History / General, ART / American / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, ART / Movements / Modernism

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