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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
Diana L. Linden
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Description for Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
Hardcover. A study of Ben Shahn's New Deal murals (1933-43) in the context of American Jewish history, labor history, and public discourse. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; AC; AGB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 825.
Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program. In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style and subject matter, offering insight into his murals’ creation and their sometimes complicated reception by officials, the public, and the press.
In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select ... Read more
Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program. In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style and subject matter, offering insight into his murals’ creation and their sometimes complicated reception by officials, the public, and the press.
In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814339831
SKU
V9780814339831
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About Diana L. Linden
Diana L. Linden is a historian of American art born in New York City and now residing in Claremont, California. Linden served as visual essayist for City of Promises: The History of Jews in New York, 1654–Present (three-volume series, Deborah Dash Moore, ed.), which was selected for National Jewish Book Award’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year ... Read more
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