Draws on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports. Shows that American genre painting was not a simple recording of an edenic American democracy but a type of representation, infused with ambiguities of class and illustrating complex relationships of race, gender, and age. (High School ((-12); College/Adult)
TRC audience:
High School (9-12)
College/Adult
TRC subject:
Art Ed/Museum Ed
19th Century (1800-1865)
19th Century (1866-1899)
20th Century (1900-1945)
20th Century (1946-1999)
18th Century and Earlier
TRC format:
Book