Title: The social and the real : political art of the 1930s in the western hemisphere /
Authors: Anreus, Alejandro.; Linden, Diana L.; Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957-
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Art Political aspects; Social problems in art.; Art, Modern
Abstract: During the 1930s, American artists, such as Ben Shahn, developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. Presenting an assessment of Social Realism, this book contends that the radical, 'realistic' art of the Americas during the 1930s was shaped as much by hemispheric exchange as by emulation of the European avant-garde.
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.