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Download or read book 1934 written by Ann Prentice Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar
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 Wall-to-wall America by : Karal Ann Marling
Download or read book Wall-to-wall America written by Karal Ann Marling and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover of the book, quoted in part:"The America Karal Ann Marling (the author) refers to is small-town America during the depression era; in particular those communities that were portrayed in the 1000-odd murals that appeared in post offices around the country under the auspices of the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. She goes far beyond an investigation of the murals as art, and 'Wall to Wall America' becomes an intelligent, often irreverent, discussion of popular taste and culture during the depression decade. "
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 The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture by : Victoria Grieve
Download or read book The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture written by Victoria Grieve and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art for everyone--the Federal Art Project's drive for middlebrow visual culture and identity
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 Black Artists in America by : Earnestine Jenkins
Download or read book Black Artists in America written by Earnestine Jenkins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword and acknowledgments / Kevin Sharp -- Black artists in America : From the Great Depression to Civil Rights -- Augusta Savage in Paris : African themes and the Black female body -- Walter Augustus Simon : abstract expressionist, art educator, and art historian -- Catalogue of the exhibition.
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 Religion, Art, and Money by : Peter W. Williams
Download or read book Religion, Art, and Money written by Peter W. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.
Download or read book Radio's America written by Bruce Lenthall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio’s appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio’s use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall’s book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio’s cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio’s America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
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 The Art of the Print by : Fritz Eichenberg
Download or read book The Art of the Print written by Fritz Eichenberg and published by London : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Livable Modernism by : Kristina Wilson
Download or read book Livable Modernism written by Kristina Wilson and published by Yc British Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this fascinating book, [the author] coins the term 'livable modernism' to describe this school of design. Livable modernism combined international style functional efficiency and sophistication with a respect for American consumers' desires for physical and psychological comfort, paving the way for the work of Charles and Ray Eames and other post-World War II designers. [The author] offers a new view of modernist furnishings marketed for middle-class living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms of the 1930s, and provides groundbreaking analyses of many of the most popular items, including George Sakier's stemware for the Fostoria Glass Company, Russel Wrights' American modern furniture for Macy's, and Gilbert Rohde's clocks for the Herman Miller Clock Company. As the first study of the marketing of modern design during the Depression years, [this book] features an extensive array of vintage advertisements from such magazines as 'Better Homes and Gardens', 'House Beautiful', 'Ladies' Home Journal', and the 'Saturday Evening Post'. [The author] discusses the relation of modernism to the cultural and economic climate of the Depression and examines the sophisticated marketing strategies of the movement that coincided with a period of tremendous growth for print magazines and the advertising industry. Filled with fresh insights into a fascinating period in American modern design, this book provides an important new look at these designers' and design companies' philosophies, innovations, and influence that until now have been under-appreciated"--Bookjacket.
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 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 2010-09-06 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the 1930s explores the anxiety, despair, and optimism of the period, exploring how the period culture provided a dynamic lift to the country's morale.
