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Ben Shahn

By: Frances Kathryn Pohl,Ben Shahn

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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.

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180

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Pomegranate

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1566403138

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9781566403139

Common Man, Mythic Vision

The Paintings of Ben Shahn

By: Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn

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Common Man, Mythic Vision

The Paintings of Ben Shahn

By: Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn

Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition organized by The Jewish Museum, Susan Chevlowe writes about renowned artist Ben Shahn, known for his Social Realist paintings of Depression-era America. She combines beautiful reproductions of Shahn's art with essays by leading experts on his life and career to present a groundreaking survey of his powerful and engaging mature style. 32 color plates. 74 halftones.

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194

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0691004064

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9780691004068

Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn

102 Graphics, Including 32 in Full Color

By: Ben Shahn,Kenneth Wade Prescott

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Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn

102 Graphics, Including 32 in Full Color

By: Ben Shahn,Kenneth Wade Prescott

A collection of over 100 graphics, which offer a comprehensive view of Shahn's prolific output.

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0486242889

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9780486242880

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

In Defence of Marginal Anarchy

By: Ben Thomas

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Edgar Wind and Modern Art

In Defence of Marginal Anarchy

By: Ben Thomas

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, Edgar Wind and Modern Art reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the twentieth century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed.

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261

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501341731

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9781501341731

The Shape of Content

By: Ben Shahn

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The Shape of Content

By: Ben Shahn

In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist—painter, writer, composer—to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.

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148

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Harvard University Press

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0674256654

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9780674256651

Ben Shahn's New York

The Photography of Modern Times

By: Ben Shahn,Deborah Martin Kao,Laura Katzman,Jenna Webster

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Ben Shahn's New York

The Photography of Modern Times

By: Ben Shahn,Deborah Martin Kao,Laura Katzman,Jenna Webster

Ben Shahn, painter, muralist, and graphic artist, was also a talented photographer who made documentary street photographs in New York City in the early 1930s. This book is the first to focus on his compelling New York images, showing how he used a camera to comment on many social issues of his day." "The book considers the immediate social history of Shahn's New York photographs and analyzes how his leftist politics and his interest in news photographs and film affected his photographic aesthetic. The authors assert the importance of analyzing Shahn's paintings and photographs together, explaining why the connections between the two have been ignored until now. The book reproduces not only Shahn's New York photographs but also his related paintings, prints, and drawings, and an appendix presents documents that speak to the impact of his photographic work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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460

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Fogg Art Museum

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0300083157

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9780300083156

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Common Man, Mythic Vision

Common Man, Mythic Vision

Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn

Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

Edgar Wind and Modern Art

The Shape of Content

The Shape of Content

Ben Shahn's New York

Ben Shahn's New York

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