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| The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration |
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Author(s) : Stu Cohen |
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Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archi...Read More
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| Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn |
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Author(s) : Susan Chevlowe |
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Ben Shahn (1898-1969) has long been renowned for his Social Realist paintings of Depression-era America. Equally striking, however, are Shahn's extraordinary later works, which reveal a more introspective style as well as the evolution of a new allegorical and mythical pictorial language. This book ...Read More
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| Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 |
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Author(s) : John Raeburn |
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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 Securit...Read More
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| Modern Art Despite Modernism |
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Author(s) : Robert Storr, Glenn Lowry, Balthus, Giorgio De Chirico, Ben Shahn, Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Francesco Clemente, Salvador Dali, Lucian Freud, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, George Grosz, Glenn D. Lowry |
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Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of mainstream modernism in the arts has been shadowed and complicated by alternative expressions, intended either to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of progress. Modern Art Despite Modernism explores the anti-modernist impulse as exhibited in p...Read More
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| Russell Lee: Farm Security Administration |
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Author(s) : Daniel Ankele, Denise Ankele |
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Russell Lee joined the photographic staff of the Resettlement Administration (RA), which was renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937. Both the RA and the FSA were New Deal programs created to assist poor and destitute farmers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. He worked di...Read More
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| Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life |
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Author(s) : Howard Greenfeld |
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Beginning in the thirties, he created bold and powerful paintings of often controversial subjects, and in particular his portraits of Sacco and Vanzetti caused a storm whenever they were exhibited. After working as an assistant to Diego Rivera on the ill-fated Rockefeller Center mural, he began...Read More
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