Book Description
"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--
Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674805705
"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--
Author : Susan Chevlowe
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691004075
A survey of the long and varied career of the great American Social Realist painter Ben Shahn, featuring striking reproductions of paintings, begins with his well-known Depression-era works and goes on to include an appreciation of his lesser-known later paintings. UP.
Author : Cynthia Levinson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647003202
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn “The first thing I can remember,” Ben said, “I drew.” As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees—and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers’ rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art—by disarming classmates who bully him because he’s Jewish, by defying his teachers’ insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.
Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Art
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Author : Frances Kathryn Pohl
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1566403138
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.
Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Howard Greenfeld
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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
Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN :
More than twenty stories from the Alaskan Tlingit tradition are accompanied by information on its culture, history and art.
Author : Frances K. Pohl
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1989-05
Category : Art
ISBN :
In the first, most intense years of the Cold War (1947–1954), New Deal liberals often found themselves in great disfavor. Ben Shahn's experience presents something of a paradox, however, since his paintings appealed in different ways to both liberals and conservatives. Blacklisted by CBS during the McCarthy era and yet, ironically, incorporated into presidential "campaigns of truth" aimed at improving the U.S. image abroad, Ben Shahn is a pivotal figure, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent in this highly polarized moment in American history. In this pathbreaking study, Frances Pohl traces the political and artistic struggles Ben Shahn became embroiled in as he tried to remain a socially concerned artist during the early Cold War period. She shows how he rejected the argument, voiced by many Abstract Expressionists, that art and politics should not mix, yet at the same time searched for a way to depict, in universal and allegorical terms, the broad human condition rather than simply specific instances of injustice. Perhaps most important, she makes critical connections between U.S. social and political history and the art it provoked, thus illuminating both the later career of Ben Shahn and the Cold War era in American cultural history.