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Paradoxical Nature Of American Art During The Great Depression
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Book Synopsis Paradoxical Nature of American Art During the Great Depression by : Gaye Bayri
Download or read book Paradoxical Nature of American Art During the Great Depression written by Gaye Bayri and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the ways in which antidotal reflections in American art provided a counterfriction to the affirmative stance of the government during the Great Depression. The consensus culture that adopted the common people rhetoric engendered by the nationwide crisis, the optimistic ideology of the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rising influence of the leftist politics constituted the social context in which artists constructed these two clashing perceptions, which constitutes the framework of this cultural analysis.
Book Synopsis America After the Fall by : Sarah L. Burns
Download or read book America After the Fall written by Sarah L. Burns and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at America's quest to carve out an artistic identity during the Depression era Through 50 masterpieces of painting, this fascinating catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression seeking to define modern American art. In the process, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no simple consensus. This period was also marked by an astounding diversity of work as artists sought styles--ranging from abstraction to Regionalism to Surrealism--that allowed them to engage with issues such as populism, labor, social protest, and to employ an urban and rural iconography including machines, factories, and farms. Seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others show such attempts to capture the American character. These groundbreaking paintings, highlighting the relationship between art and national experience, demonstrate how creativity, experimentation, and revolutionary vision flourished during a time of great uncertainty.
Book Synopsis How Did American Art During the Great Depression Reflect the National Psyche? by : Katrina Gulliver
Download or read book How Did American Art During the Great Depression Reflect the National Psyche? written by Katrina Gulliver and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Headin' for Better Times by : Duane Damon
Download or read book Headin' for Better Times written by Duane Damon and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Depression-era art scene across the United States, including the new "talking pictures," plays, paintings, posters, photographs, and songs.
Book Synopsis American Art of the Great Depression by : Howard E. Wooden
Download or read book American Art of the Great Depression written by Howard E. Wooden and published by Museum. This book was released on 1985 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance by : Rita Barnard
Download or read book The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance written by Rita Barnard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. It traces in the work of Kenneth Fearing and Nathaniel West certain theoretical positions associated with the Frankfurt school (especially Walter Benjamin) and with contemporary theorists of postmodernism.
Book Synopsis Struggle and Response by : Robert Carl Vitz
Download or read book Struggle and Response written by Robert Carl Vitz and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everything Was Better in America by : David Welky
Download or read book Everything Was Better in America written by David Welky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II
Book Synopsis Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by : Morris Dickstein
Download or read book Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression written by Morris Dickstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism: from Agee to Astaire, Steinbeck to Ellington, the creative energies of the Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster. Only yesterday the Great Depression seemed like a bad memory, receding into the hazy distance with little relevance to our own flush times. Economists assured us that the calamities that befell our grandparents could not happen again, yet the recent economic meltdown has once again riveted the world’s attention on the 1930s. Now, in this timely and long-awaited cultural history, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called “one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature,” explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of a traumatized nation. Dickstein’s fascination springs from his own childhood, from a father who feared a pink slip every Friday and from his own love of the more exuberant side of the era: zany screwball comedies, witty musicals, and the lubricious choreography of Busby Berkeley. Whether analyzing the influence of film, design, literature, theater, or music, Dickstein lyrically demonstrates how the arts were then so integral to the fabric of American society. While any lover of American literature knows Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, Dickstein also reclaims the lives of other novelists whose work offers enduring insights. Nathanael West saw Los Angeles as a vast dream dump, a Sargasso Sea of tawdry longing that exposed the pinched and disappointed lives of ordinary people, while Erskine Caldwell, his books Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre festooned with lurid covers, provided the most graphic portrayal of rural destitution in the 1930s. Dickstein also immerses us in the visions of Zora Neale Hurston and Henry Roth, only later recognized for their literary masterpieces. Just as Dickstein radically transforms our understanding of Depression literature, he explodes the prevailing myths that 1930s musicals and movies were merely escapist. Whether describing the undertone of sadness that lurks just below the surface of Cole Porter’s bubbly world or stressing the darker side of Capra’s wildly popular films, he shows how they delivered a catharsis of pain and an evangel of hope. Dickstein suggests that the tragic and comic worlds of Broadway and Hollywood preserved a radiance and energy that became a bastion against social suffering. Dancing in the Dark describes how FDR’s administration recognized the critical role that the arts could play in enabling “the helpless to become hopeful, the victims to become agents.” Along with the WPA, the photography unit of the FSA represented a historic partnership between government and art, and the photographers, among them Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, created the defining look of the period. The symbolic end to this cultural flowering came finally with the New York World’s Fair of 1939–40, a collective event that presented a vision of the future as a utopia of streamlined modernity and, at long last, consumer abundance. Retrieving the stories of an entire generation of performers and writers, Dancing in the Dark shows how a rich, panoramic culture both exposed and helped alleviate the national trauma. This luminous work is a monumental study of one of America’s most remarkable artistic periods.
Book Synopsis Art for the Millions by : Allison Rudnick
Download or read book Art for the Millions written by Allison Rudnick and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American art in the 1930s—intertwined with the political, social, and economic tumult of an era not so unlike our own—engaged with the public amid global upheaval. This publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United States from the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression to the closure of the Works Progress Administration in 1943 with a focus on the unprecedented dissemination of art and ideas brought about by new technology and government programs. During this time of civil, economic, and social unrest, artists transmitted political ideas and propaganda through a wide range of media, including paintings and sculptures, but also journals, prints, textiles, postcards, and other objects that would have been widely collected, experienced, or encountered. Insightful essays discuss but go beyond the era’s best-known creators, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, to highlight artists who have received little scholarly attention, including women and artists of color as well as designers and illustrators. Emphasizing the contributions of the Black Popular Front and Leftist movements while acknowledging competing visions of the country through the lenses of race, gender, and class, Art for the Millions is a timely look at art in the United States made by and for its people.
Book Synopsis From the Great Depression to the New Deal by : Amy J. Jens
Download or read book From the Great Depression to the New Deal written by Amy J. Jens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Church and World by : Jon Diefenthaler
Download or read book The Paradox of Church and World written by Jon Diefenthaler and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ultimately,” or so H. Richard Niebuhr wrote as early as 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world, it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world, it becomes indistinguishable from the world and loses its effectiveness no less surely.” In the same context he went on to state: “The rhythm of approach and withdrawal need not be like the swinging of the pendulum, mere repetition without progress; it may be more like the rhythm of the waves that wash upon the beach; each succeeding wave advances a little farther into the world with its cleansing gospel before that gospel becomes sullied with the earth.” Niebuhr’s thought on the paradox of church and world is an essential piece of our understanding of twentieth-century theology in America. In this volume, Jon Diefenthaler collects for the first time over forty writings that trace the lineage of Niebuhr’s thought, presents them in a single place, and makes a case for their enduring value in a post-church religious environment. The volume is a treasury of little-known and hard-to-find pieces, making scholarship and understanding easier.
Book Synopsis The Money Illusion by : Scott Sumner
Download or read book The Money Illusion written by Scott Sumner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the Great Depression, the same may be happening now to our understanding of the first economic crisis of the 21st century. Foregoing the usual relitigating of problems such as housing markets and banking crises, renowned monetary economist Scott Sumner argues that the Great Recession came down to one thing: nominal GDP, the sum of all nominal spending in the economy, which the Federal Reserve erred in allowing to plummet. The Money Illusion is an end-to-end case for this school of thought, known as market monetarism, written by its leading voice in economics. Based almost entirely on standard macroeconomic concepts, this highly accessible text lays the groundwork for a simple yet fundamentally radical understanding of how monetary policy can work best: providing a stable environment for a market economy to flourish.
Book Synopsis The Great Depression for American Art by : Linda Louise Buckley
Download or read book The Great Depression for American Art written by Linda Louise Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition by : Amity Shlaes
Download or read book The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition written by Amity Shlaes and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated edition of Amity Shlaes's bestseller The Forgotten Man, featuring vivid black-and-white illustrations that capture this dark period in American history and the men and women, from all walks of life, whose character and ideas helped them persevere It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era—the ones with rock-solid values that helped them through the toughest of times—can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of The Forgotten Man. This imaginative illustrated edition highlights one of the most devastating periods in our nation's history through the lives of American people, from politicians and workers to businessmen, farmers, and ordinary citizens. Smart and stylish black-and-white art from acclaimed illustrator Paul Rivoche provides an utterly original vision of the coexistence of despair and hope that characterized Depression-era America. Shlaes's narrative and Rivoche's art illuminate key economic concepts, showing how government intervention helped to make the Depression great by overlooking the men and women who were trying to help themselves. The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition captures the spirit of this crucial moment in American history and the steadfast character and ingenuity of those who lived it.
Book Synopsis Francis Scott Fitzgerald : His Art and Vision by : Ratan Bhattacharjee
Download or read book Francis Scott Fitzgerald : His Art and Vision written by Ratan Bhattacharjee and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution to American fiction has to be judged keeping in mind that the naturalistic mimesis of the fiction of the earlier period is important as a critique of bourgeois society, but it ultimately fails in representing the problematic nature of bourgeois reality. The use of romance by Fitzgerald within mimetic realism is a logical culmination of the rise of the novel as it is. Through this use of romance he is able to adequately explore the bourgeois myth of man
Book Synopsis The Great Depression in America by : William H. Young
Download or read book The Great Depression in America written by William H. Young and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything from Amos 'n' Andy to zeppelins is included in this two-volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s.
