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The social and the real : political art of the 1930s in the western hemisphere
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The social and the real : political art of the 1930s in the western hemisphere

Author: Alejandro Anreus; Diana L Linden; Jonathan Weinberg
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Series: Refiguring modernism, 4
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alejandro Anreus; Diana L Linden; Jonathan Weinberg
ISBN: 027102691X 9780271026916
OCLC Number: 57193030
Description: xxii, 362 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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 -- The "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 -- The president's two bodies: stagings and restagings of the New deal body politic / Sally Stein.
Series Title: Refiguring modernism, 4
Responsibility: edited by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg.
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