Author: Matthew Baigell
Publisher: New York : Praeger
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur D. Hittner
Publisher:
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781320029674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although the so-called "American Scene" movement dominated American art during the second quarter of the twentieth century, it has been largely forgotten today, eclipsed by emergence of abstract expressionism and the development of other avant garde art movements which gained prominence in America by mid-century. Today, however, even as the Depression-era generation fades from the scene, its art lives on. The quality, energy and visual impact of this art is abundantly apparent from even a cursory perusal of the masterworks described and reproduced in this catalogue of a private collection of American representational art of the Thirties and Forties. Painting the American Scene: American Art of the Thirties and Forties offers an extraordinary glimpse into the lives and work of twenty-nine American painters whose art was highly acclaimed and widely exhibited during their lifetimes and for whom proper recognition is long overdue.
Author: Emily Wasserman
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780882546278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Diana L. Linden
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0814339840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program. In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style and subject matter, offering insight into his murals’ creation and their sometimes complicated reception by officials, the public, and the press. In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select Shahn murals that were created from 1933 to 1943 and are located in public buildings in New York, New Jersey, and Missouri. She studies Shahn’s famous untitled fresco for the Jersey Homesteads—a utopian socialist cooperative community populated with former Jewish garment workers and funded under the New Deal—Shahn’s mural for the Bronx Central Post Office, a fresco Shahn proposed to the post office in St. Louis, and a related one-panel easel painting titled The First Amendment located in a Queens, New York, post office. By investigating the role of Jewish identity in Shahn’s works, Linden considers the artist’s responses to important issues of the era, such as President Roosevelt’s opposition to open immigration to the United States, New York’s bustling garment industry and its labor unions, ideological concerns about freedom and liberty that had signifcant meaning to Jews, and the encroachment of censorship into American art. Linden shows that throughout his public murals, Shahn literally painted Jews into the American scene with his subjects, themes, and compositions. Readers interested in Jewish American history, art history, and Depression-era American culture will enjoy this insightful volume.
Author: Richard H. Love
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9781580460248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.
Author: Carmenita Higginbotham
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271063935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the portrayal of race in interwar American art. Focuses on the works of urban realist Reginald Marsh and his contemporaries to show how black figures acted as cultural and visual markers and embodied complex concerns about the presence of African Americans in urban centers.
Author: Joe Jones
Publisher: St Louis Art Museum
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780891780946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A long-overdue consideration of the life and work of Joe Jones (1909-1963), an American scene painter and social realist from St. Louis"--From publisher description.
Author: John Raeburn
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2024-04-22
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0252056183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.
Author: Michael D. Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catalog of the exhibition, "The Inlander Collection of Great Lakes Regional Painting," held at the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Mich.