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Author | : Howard Greenfeld |
Publisher | : Plunkett Lake Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2019-08-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1906. Trained as a lithographer, Shahn created social realist paintings of controversial subjects such as Sacco and Vanzetti. He worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera on Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, and later created his own public murals in Washington, New York, and New Jersey. In 1935, Walker Evans invited him to join the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration. As a photographer, Shahn documented the Depression in the American South with Evans and Dorothea Lange. During the war years, he worked for the Office of War Information (OWI) producing propaganda posters before returning to painting. Toward the end of his life he worked as a commercial artist, taught and wrote about art, including The Biography of a Painting(1956) and The Shape of Content (1960). Howard Greenfeld's biography is the first complete life of the artist and is illustrated with 90 of his photographs, pictures, and paintings. “Howard Greenfeld’s approach scrupulously balances the personal and the political to provide a rounded portrait... gives a convincing sense of a determined individual making his mark as an immigrant in the turbulent America of depression and war, social upheaval and reaction.” — David Cohen, The New York Times
Author | : Cynthia Levinson |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1647003202 |
Download The People's Painter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn “The first thing I can remember,” Ben said, “I drew.” As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees—and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers’ rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art—by disarming classmates who bully him because he’s Jewish, by defying his teachers’ insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.
Author | : Frances Kathryn Pohl |
Publisher | : Pomegranate |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 1566403138 |
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BEN SHAHN offers a comprehensive look at the art work of one of the leading social realists of our time. The book includes pieces done in the 1930s depicting the effects of the Depression, urban decay, labor strikes & poverty. Brilliant posters created for the Office of War Information during World War II describe Shahn's work in the 1940s. The book explores the artist's post-war transition from a social realism to a "personal realism," employing allegory & symbolism. Through discussions of his political views, his struggles to maintain artistic integrity, as well as through selections of Shahn's own writings, the author weaves a compelling portrait of the man & his work. BEN SHAHN includes an extensive bibliography. Other Pomegranate books dedicated to twentieth-century American artists: CHILDE HASSAM'S NEW YORK, by Ilene Susan Fort, ISBN 1-55640-317-0, $21.95; EDWARD HOPPER'S NEW ENGLAND, by Carl Little, ISBN 1-55640-315-4, $21.95; & STEWARD DAVIS'S ABSTRACT ARGOT, by William Wilson, ISBN 1-55640-316-2.
Author | : Ben Shahn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674805705 |
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"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--
Author | : Susan Chevlowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691004075 |
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A survey of the long and varied career of the great American Social Realist painter Ben Shahn, featuring striking reproductions of paintings, begins with his well-known Depression-era works and goes on to include an appreciation of his lesser-known later paintings. UP.
Author | : Diana L. Linden |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0814339840 |
Download Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Readers interested in Jewish American history, art history, and Depression-era American culture will enjoy this insightful volume.
Author | : Nell Painter |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1640090614 |
Download Old In Art School Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this "glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).
Author | : John Raeburn |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0252056183 |
Download Ben Shahn's American Scene Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Seldman Rodman |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258104122 |
Download Portrait of the Artist as an American, Ben Shahn Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Howard Greenfeld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Biography of Dr. Barnes, one of the most colorful, bizarre, and visionary figure in the American art world in the last century.