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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 | : Ben Shahn |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674256654 |
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In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist—painter, writer, composer—to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.
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.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Ben Shahn |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
ISBN | : 9780805240573 |
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Retells a story from the Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical text, about how God created the world through the letters of the alphabet.
Author | : Frances K. Pohl |
Publisher | : Austin : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1989-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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In the first, most intense years of the Cold War (1947–1954), New Deal liberals often found themselves in great disfavor. Ben Shahn's experience presents something of a paradox, however, since his paintings appealed in different ways to both liberals and conservatives. Blacklisted by CBS during the McCarthy era and yet, ironically, incorporated into presidential "campaigns of truth" aimed at improving the U.S. image abroad, Ben Shahn is a pivotal figure, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent in this highly polarized moment in American history. In this pathbreaking study, Frances Pohl traces the political and artistic struggles Ben Shahn became embroiled in as he tried to remain a socially concerned artist during the early Cold War period. She shows how he rejected the argument, voiced by many Abstract Expressionists, that art and politics should not mix, yet at the same time searched for a way to depict, in universal and allegorical terms, the broad human condition rather than simply specific instances of injustice. Perhaps most important, she makes critical connections between U.S. social and political history and the art it provoked, thus illuminating both the later career of Ben Shahn and the Cold War era in American cultural history.
Author | : Ben Shahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258085407 |
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Author | : Ben Shahn |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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More than twenty stories from the Alaskan Tlingit tradition are accompanied by information on its culture, history and art.
Author | : Pierre Le Gall |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781402766480 |
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Say hello to Constance, a sweet, grateful, good little girl--NOT! In fact, she’s a mischief-making, rule-breaking imp with a wicked gleam in her eye. Wherever she goes, trouble (and her enormous cat, Tiny) surely follow. That’s why children will go absolutely mad for her: Constance does exactly what they dream of doing in their naughtiest moments...and she’s never repentant. Making the delicious Constance stories even more fun: the comic contrast between the deadpan text and the outrageous illustrations. Like the cheeky character herself, the pictures always say the opposite of the words
Author | : Art Institute of Chicago |
Publisher | : Hudson Hills |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780865592070 |
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This exhibition catalog highlights a recent gift of works on paper to the Art Institute of Chicago from the Gecht family, longtime Chicago collectors. The catalog comprises 135 drawings, prints, and sculptures from the collection, all of which embody a broad definition of Modernism. The book spans two centuries and contains artists such as Cezanne and Van Gogh as well as Mark Rothko and Philip Guston. Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, and Picasso form the backbone of the collection with nearly 30 works of art apiece. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (curator of prints & drawings, Art Inst. of Chicago) provides a short introductory essay that tracks the evolution of the collection. Authored by a bevy of contributors, the well-written entries maintain a consistent tone and quality and strike a good balance between biographical information and interpretations of the work of art itself. While the Gecht collection is certainly quite a boon for the institute, it is not comprehensive enough in itself to make the catalog essential for all art libraries. It does, however, belong on library shelves with strong modern art and graphics collections.-Kraig A. Binkowski, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington 135 colour illustrations