Description: How the most prestigious genre of painting collapsed into obscurity, only to rise again in new guises.
Brief description: Mark Salber Phillips is professor emeritus of history at Carleton University.
Review Quotes: "In tracing the ways in which artists utilized the mechanics of the genre outside of the constraints set by the European academies, this volume may serve world historians in finding creative ways to decode the visual structures of history painting as they served not only to support, but to critique or subvert ideologies and artistic concepts." Journal of World History