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Ben Shahn's New York : the photography of modern times / Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, Jenna Webster ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, 2000Description: viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300083157
  • 9780300083156
  • 0300083254
  • 9780300083255
  • 1891771124
  • 9781891771125
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770.92 21
LOC classification:
  • TR820.5 .S4797 2000
Contents:
Ben Shahn's New York : scenes from the living theater / Laura Katzman -- Ben Shahn and the public use of art / Deborah Martin Kao -- Ben Shahn and the master medium / Jenna Webster -- The politics of media : painting and photography in the art of Ben Shahn / Laura Katzman. Notes. Note to the reader. Exhibition catalogue. Greenwich Village and environs -- Union Square and Fourteenth Street -- The Lower East Side -- Middle West Side/Middle East Side -- Artists' protest -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- Contemporary American photography. Appendix : contemporary documents. Ben Shahn's New York -- Artists' protests -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- The politics of media.
Summary: Presents a collection of documentary street photographs taken by artist Ben Shahn in New York City in the early 1930s, with text that examines the social history of the pictures, as well as an analysis of Shahn's motives and the importance of his art.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ben Shahn's New York : scenes from the living theater / Laura Katzman -- Ben Shahn and the public use of art / Deborah Martin Kao -- Ben Shahn and the master medium / Jenna Webster -- The politics of media : painting and photography in the art of Ben Shahn / Laura Katzman. Notes. Note to the reader. Exhibition catalogue. Greenwich Village and environs -- Union Square and Fourteenth Street -- The Lower East Side -- Middle West Side/Middle East Side -- Artists' protest -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- Contemporary American photography. Appendix : contemporary documents. Ben Shahn's New York -- Artists' protests -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- The politics of media.

Presents a collection of documentary street photographs taken by artist Ben Shahn in New York City in the early 1930s, with text that examines the social history of the pictures, as well as an analysis of Shahn's motives and the importance of his art.

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