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Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico, Gina F. Morello, Brett A. Casadonte, and Gilda Collins |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146713144X |
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The San Francisco Bay Area's art community was thriving until the Great Depression strangled commerce in the 1930s. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal art programs brought relief to many talented but financially strapped artists. Their legacy, and that of the New Deal, adorns the walls and halls of many public spaces throughout the region. Murals cover the lobbies of the Coit Memorial Tower, the Beach Chalet, and the Aquatic Park Bathhouse (today's San Francisco Maritime Museum) and decorate many public schools and post offices. Today, almost all of this wonderful art can be viewed by the public, free of charge.
Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico and Betty S. Veronico |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1467125741 |
Download Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Great Depression was a terrible blow for the Bay Area's thriving art community. A few private art projects kept a small number of sculptors working, but for the majority, prospects of finding new commissions were grim. By the mid-1930s, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program had gathered steam, and assistance was provided to the nation's art community. Salvation came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed thousands of artists to produce sculpture for public venues. The Bay Area art community subsequently benefitted from the need to fill the then-forthcoming Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) with sculpture of all shapes and sizes. As bad as the Depression was, its legacy more than 80 years on is one of beauty. The Bay Area is dotted with sculpture from this era, the majority of it on public display. Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area is a visual tour of this artistic bounty.
Author | : Martha Raquel Pacheco-Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art objects |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439661782 |
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The Great Depression was a terrible blow for the Bay Area's thriving art community. A few private art projects kept a small number of sculptors working, but for the majority, prospects of finding new commissions were grim. By the mid-1930s, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program had gathered steam, and assistance was provided to the nation's art community. Salvation came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed thousands of artists to produce sculpture for public venues. The Bay Area art community subsequently benefitted from the need to fill the then-forthcoming Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) with sculpture of all shapes and sizes. As bad as the Depression was, its legacy more than 80 years on is one of beauty. The Bay Area is dotted with sculpture from this era, the majority of it on public display. Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area is a visual tour of this artistic bounty.
Author | : Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252099249 |
Download Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.
Author | : Masha Zakheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Download Coit Tower, San Francisco, Its History and Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tim Drescher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Mural painting and decoration |
ISBN | : 9781880654132 |
Download San Francisco Bay Area Murals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The expanded and revised third edition of a popular visual collection, San Francisco Bay Area Murals captures the mural movement in all its rich detail. These remarkably expressive works of street art are meticulously captured and reviewed by a longtime scholar and aficionado of murals.
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Publisher | : Prestel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Graffiti |
ISBN | : |
Download San Francisco Street Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A must-have for any street art enthusiast, this book presents the most mind blowing examples of renegade creativity in San Francisco. San Francisco's vibrant street art scene exists in areas off the city's well-worn tourist paths. The alleyways and hidden side streets of the Haight, the Tenderloin, and especially the Mission district's Clarion Alley offer unexpected treats to visitors lucky enough to stumble upon them. For more than five years, photographer Steve Rotman has obsessively documented this scene as it evolved on walls, sidewalks, billboards, fences, doors, and other public spaces. Culled from thousands of images, the result is a collection of work that attests to the artists' personal and stylistic diversity, from Mars1's robotic depictions of alternate universes which reflect the local counterculture spirit, to Neck Face's whimsically ghoulish creatures that serve as a testament to entrepreneurial hipsterdom, to Bigfoot's friendly green primates inspired by the area's rich graffiti culture. San Francisco's charm as an international destination also causes foreign artists to contribute to the street dialogue--Brazilian duo Os Gemeos, Londoner D*Face and German painter Dome have all graced the city's walls with their unique points of view. An enterprising photographer, Rotman has forged relationships with many of these often-reclusive artists, allowing him access to some of the lesser-known corners of the street art world.
Author | : Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0803236085 |
Download California Women and Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Therese Poletti |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2008-09-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568987569 |
Download Art Deco San Francisco Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Castro Theatre, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Headquarters, 450 Sutter Medico-Dental Buildingthesemasterpieces of San Francisco's Art Deco heritage are the work of one man: Timothy Pflueger. An immigrant's sonwith only a grade-school education, Pflueger began practicing architecture after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. While his contemporaries looked to Beaux-Arts traditions to rebuild the city, he brought exotic Mayan, Asian, and Egyptian forms to buildings ranging from simple cocktail lounges to the city's first skyscrapers. Pflueger was one of the city's most prolificarchitects during his 40-year career. He designed two major downtown skyscrapers, two stock exchanges, several neighborhood theaters, movie palaces for four smaller cities (including the beloved Paramount in Oakland), some ofthe city's biggest schools, and at least 50 homes. His works include the San Francisco Stock Exchange, the ever-popularTop of the Mark, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the San Francisco World's Fair. It is a testament to his talentthat many of his buildings still stand and many have been named landmarks. Therese Poletti tells the fascinating story of Pflueger's life and work in Art Deco San Francisco. In lively detail, she relates how Pflueger built extravagant compositions in metal, concrete, and glass. She also tells the story behind the architecture: Pflueger's commissioning and support of muralist Diego Rivera, his association with photographer Ansel Adams and sculptor Ralph Stackpole, and his childhood friendship turned to adulthood sponsorship with San Francisco Mayor James "Sunny" Rolph Jr. Beautiful archival photography mixes with stunning new photography in this collection of a truly Californian, but ultimately American, story.