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Mobility and Identity in Us Genre Painting: Painting at the Threshold

Mobility and Identity in Us Genre Painting: Painting at the Threshold

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Series: Routledge Research in Art History

Art HistoryAmerican Art - GeneralPainting Instruction

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ISBN10: 0367654768
ISBN13: 9780367654764
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 2 2024
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.99
Language: English

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.

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