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Title The social and the real : political art of the 1930s in the western hemisphere / edited by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  N72.P6 S64 2006    Available  ---
Description xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series Refiguring modernism ; 4
Refiguring modernism ; 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-349) and index.
Contents Signifying the real: documentary photography in the 1930s / Alan Trachtenburg -- Social and political commentary in Cuban modernist painting of the 1930s / Juan A. Martinez -- "Mexican problem": nation and "native" in Mexican muralism and cultural discourse / Mary K. Coffey -- Canadian political art in the 1930s: "a form of distancing" / Marylin McKay -- Adapting to Argentinean reality: the new realism of Antonio Berni / Alejandro Anreus -- I want muscle: male desire and the image of the worker in American art of the 1930s / Jonathan Weinberg -- Making history: Melvin Gray Johnson's and Earle W. Richardson's studies for Negro achievement / Jacqueline Francis -- Lynching and anti-lynching: art and politics in the 1930s / Marlene Park -- Art and politics in the popular front: the union work and social realism of Philip Evergood / Patricia Hills -- Workers and painters: social realism and race in Diego Rivera's Detroit murals / Anthony W. Lee -- "Come out from behind the Pre-Cambrian shield": the politics of memory and identity in the art of Paraskeva Clark / Natalie Luckyj -- Ben Shahn's New deal murals: Jewish identity in the American scene / Diana L. Linden -- Between Zhdanovism and 57th Street: artists and the CPUSA, 1945-1956 / Andrew Hemingway -- President's two bodies: stagings and restagings of the New deal body politic / Sally Stein.
Subject Art -- Political aspects.
Art -- Political aspects.
Social problems in art.
Social problems in art.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Art, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Added Author Anreus, Alejandro.
Linden, Diana L.
Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957-
ISBN 027102691X alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780271026916