Federal art and national culture
Subtitle: the politics of identity in New Deal America
By: Jonathan Harris.
Series: Cambridge studies in American visual culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Federal Art Project.; Social realism -- United States.; New Deal, 1933-1939.; United States -- Cultural policy.
Description: Federal Art and National Culture examines the role of the visual arts in the United States during the 1930s. Analyzing the Federal Art Project, a New Deal agency that organized workers in programs designed to put the unemployed back to work, it draws on theories of the state, cultural production and ideology as they pertain to Roosevelt's social agenda.

This study also considers visual art of the Depression years in the context of a broader American culture, at a time when radical politics of the Left and Right were rampant. It engages, moreover, in debates over modernism and modernity in culture and the visual arts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-225) and index.