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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life

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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life - Brownlee, Peter John
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"Genre painting flourished in the U.S. during the mid-19th century. These narrative scenes depicting the everyday activities of stock or typed characters captivated American audiences. Delineating distinctly American characters, often through the exploration of racial, regional, or class differences, genre painting, like landscape, was often called upon as a vehicle for expression of cultural nationalism.Two paintings from the Louvre represent the Dutch and English schools, key sources on which genre painters in the U.S. ...

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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life 2013, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295992693

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