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Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954

Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954 Trade paperback - 1989

by Pohl, Frances K

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Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine+ with no dust jacket. (1989). Trade paperback. 0292755384 . Book is as new. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder.; American Studies; 8.90 X 5.90 X 0.70 inches; 250 pages .
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  • Title Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954
  • Author Pohl, Frances K
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine+ with no dust jacket
  • Pages 249
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin
  • Date (1989)
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 16557
  • ISBN 9780292755383 / 0292755384
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.57 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social problems in art, Politics in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88039304
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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.

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