Re-envisioning the Everyday

Re-envisioning the Everyday

AngličtinaMäkká väzba
Fagg John
Pennsylvania State University Press
EAN: 9780271094007
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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.

EAN 9780271094007
ISBN 0271094001
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ Pennsylvania State University Press
Dátum vydania 18. marca 2025
Stránky 266
Jazyk English
Rozmery 254 x 178 x 19
Krajina United States
Autori Fagg John
Ilustrácie 16 Halftones, color; 52 Halftones, black and white