American genre painting : the politics of everyday life / Elizabeth Johns.

"American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings-- of farmers, western boatmen and trappers, blacks both slave and free, middle-clas...

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Main Author: Johns, Elizabeth, 1937- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1991]
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