Author: Davis PrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn. Edited by Davis Pratt
Author: Davis PrattThe Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn
Author: Ben ShahnPublisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Over one hundred pictures selected from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.
The photographie eye of Ben Shahn
Author: Ben ShahnBen Shahn: An Artist’s Life
Author: Howard GreenfeldPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1906. Trained as a lithographer, Shahn created social realist paintings of controversial subjects such as Sacco and Vanzetti. He worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera on Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, and later created his own public murals in Washington, New York, and New Jersey. In 1935, Walker Evans invited him to join the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration. As a photographer, Shahn documented the Depression in the American South with Evans and Dorothea Lange. During the war years, he worked for the Office of War Information (OWI) producing propaganda posters before returning to painting. Toward the end of his life he worked as a commercial artist, taught and wrote about art, including The Biography of a Painting(1956) and The Shape of Content (1960). Howard Greenfeld's biography is the first complete life of the artist and is illustrated with 90 of his photographs, pictures, and paintings. “Howard Greenfeld’s approach scrupulously balances the personal and the political to provide a rounded portrait... gives a convincing sense of a determined individual making his mark as an immigrant in the turbulent America of depression and war, social upheaval and reaction.” — David Cohen, The New York Times
Ben Shahn as Photographer
Author: Ben ShahnHow the Other Half Looks
Author: Sara BlairPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202877
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures. Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America--and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change. How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side has inspired new ways of looking-and looking back-that have shaped literary and popular expression as well as American modernity.
Ben Shahn
Author: Frances Kathryn PohlPublisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 1566403138
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
BEN SHAHN offers a comprehensive look at the art work of one of the leading social realists of our time. The book includes pieces done in the 1930s depicting the effects of the Depression, urban decay, labor strikes & poverty. Brilliant posters created for the Office of War Information during World War II describe Shahn's work in the 1940s. The book explores the artist's post-war transition from a social realism to a "personal realism," employing allegory & symbolism. Through discussions of his political views, his struggles to maintain artistic integrity, as well as through selections of Shahn's own writings, the author weaves a compelling portrait of the man & his work. BEN SHAHN includes an extensive bibliography. Other Pomegranate books dedicated to twentieth-century American artists: CHILDE HASSAM'S NEW YORK, by Ilene Susan Fort, ISBN 1-55640-317-0, $21.95; EDWARD HOPPER'S NEW ENGLAND, by Carl Little, ISBN 1-55640-315-4, $21.95; & STEWARD DAVIS'S ABSTRACT ARGOT, by William Wilson, ISBN 1-55640-316-2.
Art Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Including an international directory of museum permanent collection catalogs.
Catalog of the Library of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Author: Whitney Museum of American Art. LibraryPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Documenting America, 1935-1943
Author: Lawrence W. LevinePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520062214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.