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Book Proceedings of the     American Artists  Congress

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Artists Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First American Artists  Congress

Download or read book First American Artists Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visionaries and Outcasts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Brenson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781565846241
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Visionaries and Outcasts written by Michael Brenson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades of federal funding for the arts is chronicled in this revealing look at the NEA and its controversial role in promoting American art.

Book The Free World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Menand
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 0374722919
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Free World written by Louis Menand and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post "The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice One of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of The Washington Post's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 | A Mother Jones best book of 2021 In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of “freedom” applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s residencies at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg’s friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin’s transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag’s challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America’s once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1328 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index of Conference Proceedings

Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting

Download or read book Proceedings of the ACSA Annual Meeting written by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal

Download or read book Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communism in America

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  • Author : Albert Fried
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780231102353
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Communism in America written by Albert Fried and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And overview -- The 1920s: birth, insurgency, retrenchment -- Militancy and combat: third period communism, 1929-1934 -- The popular front against fascism, 1935-1945 -- Cold War and demise, 1945--

Book W P A  Technical Series

Download or read book W P A Technical Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art  Activism  and Oppositionality

Download or read book Art Activism and Oppositionality written by Grant H. Kester and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from the influential American journal of film, video and photography, exploring ideologies and institutions of the artworld; current media strategies for producing social change; and topics around gender, race and representation. I

Book American Letters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jackson Pollock
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2011-04-11
  • ISBN : 0745651550
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book American Letters written by Jackson Pollock and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents letters written by the American painter and his brothers and parents from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.

Book Journal of the Assembly  Legislature of the State of California

Download or read book Journal of the Assembly Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kitsch  Propaganda  and the American Avant Garde

Download or read book Kitsch Propaganda and the American Avant Garde written by Michael J. Pearce and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the dramatic history of the weaponization of avant-garde art as propaganda, from its violent origins selling the idealistic communism of revolutionary France to its use as an American weapon wielded against the Nazi and Soviet threat as World War II began. It shows how art became ammunition in the war of ideas as the protagonists of the Second World War attempted to control the minds of their people. The text highlights how the avant-garde was the battlefield for the epic struggle between collectivism and American individualism, and will appeal to the reader with an interest in vivid stories of art, history, and politics.

Book Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art

Download or read book Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art written by Matthew Baigell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish American artists and the appeal of radical political causes between the years of the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s and the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s. Visual material consists primarily of political cartoons published in leftwing Yiddish- and English-language newspapers and magazines. Artists often commented on current events using biblical and other Jewish references, meaning that whatever were their political concerns, their Jewish heritage was ever present. By the late 1940s, the obvious ties between political interests and religious concerns largely disappeared. The text, set against events of the times—the Russian Revolution, the Depression and the rise of fascism during the 1930s as well as life on New York's Lower East Side—includes artists' statements as well as the thoughts of religious, literary, and political figures ranging from Marx to Trotsky to newspaper editor Abraham Cahan to contemporary art critics including Meyer Schapiro.