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Mobility and Identity in US Genre Painting: Painting at the Threshold (Routledge Research in Art History) - Hardcover

Book 43 of 91: Routledge Research in Art History

Baradel, Lacey

 
9780367409593: Mobility and Identity in US Genre Painting: Painting at the Threshold (Routledge Research in Art History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367409593 ISBN 13: 9780367409593
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines the portrayal of themes of boundary crossing, itinerancy, relocation, and displacement in US genre paintings during the second half of the long nineteenth century (c. 1860–1910).

Through four diachronic case studies, the book reveals how the high-stakes politics of mobility and identity during this period informed the production and reception of works of art by Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (1831–1915), Thomas Hovenden (1840–95), and John Sloan (1871–1951). It also complicates art history’s canonical understandings of genre painting as a category that seeks to reinforce social hierarchies and emphasize more rooted connections to place by, instead, privileging portrayals of social flux and geographic instability.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, literature, American studies, and cultural geography.

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About the Author

Lacey Baradel is a historian of the art of the United States. She has taught at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at Vassar College.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367409593
ISBN 13 
9780367409593
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
164