Radical Art
Subtitle: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780520231559
Subjects: The Arts: General Issues; Prints, American; General; Art & Art Instruction; Printmaking; Art; The Americas; New York; Art / General; Social problems in art; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Criticism; 20th century; Artists; New York (State); Political activity
Description: "Radical art investigates the relationship of 1930s prints to a wide spectrum of cultural factors: federal support for the arts, ideals of cultural democracy, leftist politics, debates over modernism, the activities of radical and artists' groups, gendered representational strategies, and the tensions involved in antiracist organizing and antifascist activism. Drawing on recent labor history, gender theory, and studies of racism, fascism, and leftist politics, Langa reads the iconographical clues in these prints in new and stimulating ways."--Jacket.