Description
Book SynopsisTraces the history of American genre painting from 1905 to 1945. Examines how artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, and Jacob Lawrence adapted to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art.
Trade Review“In embracing and rethinking ‘the genre of genre,’ Fagg restitutes ‘the small things that get swept aside by grand narratives.’ That alone would make this a pioneering volume, but it is in fact only one of many contributions of this scholarship.”
—Leo Mazow,Louise B. and J. Cochrane Harwood Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
“Re-envisioning the Everyday assembles a surprising cast of characters and visual styles around the category of ‘genre,’ reconsidering what the term can be said to encompass and describe.”
—Jennifer A. Greenhill,Endowed Professor of American Art, University of Arkansas School of Art
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Genre Painting in a New Century: Jerome Myers, Edmund C. Tarbell, and Elizabeth Shippen Green
2. John Sloan’s Intimate Tenements
3. Brand Ordinary: Norman Rockwell and the Commercial Illustration of Everyday Life
4. The 1930s Genre Painting Revival
5. Ben Shahn and Jacob Lawrence: Beyond Genre Painting
Conclusion: A Genre America
Notes
Bibliography
Index
