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The Shape of Content
Ben Shahn
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Description for The Shape of Content
Paperback. A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 144 pages, 35 line illustrations, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
202g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674805705
SKU
V9780674805705
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About Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was an American painter, lithographer, and photographer. His work, commenting on major social issues such as racial discrimination, labor conditions, and the threat of atomic warfare, has been featured in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Reviews for The Shape of Content
The book is the clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read.
Frank Getlein
New Republic
To find a lucid painter speaking lucidly of art is a thrilling discovery… [He traces] the formation of painting from idea to completion, both generally and specifically with a clarity of thought and a precise use of language which should be a very archetypal model for all critics and painters alike.
Virginia Quarterly Review
A remarkably interesting book, which puts the reader in rewarding contact with a questing mind and a humane spirit.
The Atlantic
[Shahn] sets forth his views on both the practice and the purposes of art with a clarity, cogency, and incisiveness that any professional writer might envy, and he manages to interweave with this a good deal of interesting material about his own development as an artist, as well as a running summary of his opinions on contemporary painting in general…the book is highly controversial…also highly stimulating.
New Yorker
Points made in the collection are pertinent, lucid and most readable. A valuable addition to the appraisal of the condition of the arts.
Kirkus Reviews
Frank Getlein
New Republic
To find a lucid painter speaking lucidly of art is a thrilling discovery… [He traces] the formation of painting from idea to completion, both generally and specifically with a clarity of thought and a precise use of language which should be a very archetypal model for all critics and painters alike.
Virginia Quarterly Review
A remarkably interesting book, which puts the reader in rewarding contact with a questing mind and a humane spirit.
The Atlantic
[Shahn] sets forth his views on both the practice and the purposes of art with a clarity, cogency, and incisiveness that any professional writer might envy, and he manages to interweave with this a good deal of interesting material about his own development as an artist, as well as a running summary of his opinions on contemporary painting in general…the book is highly controversial…also highly stimulating.
New Yorker
Points made in the collection are pertinent, lucid and most readable. A valuable addition to the appraisal of the condition of the arts.
Kirkus Reviews