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John Raeburn - Ben Shahn's American Scene - 9780252035302 - V9780252035302
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Ben Shahn's American Scene

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Description for Ben Shahn's American Scene Hardback. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century. This book presents one hundred photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. Num Pages: 208 pages, 100 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 6452 x 15. Weight in Grams: 780.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035302
SKU
V9780252035302
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Ref
99-15

About John Raeburn
John Raeburn is a professor of American studies and English at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of, most recently, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography.

Reviews for Ben Shahn's American Scene
 "Raeburn's close reading of the photographs and his analysis of what Shahn excluded offer a model for how historians can use photographs as primary documents."
Indiana Magazine of History “Adroitly analyzing the complex visual dynamics in Ben Shahn's photography of small Ohio towns, Raeburn offers a useful and compelling reading of an important but neglected group of images."
Cara Finnegan, author of ... Read more

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