Ben Shahn An Artist S Life

Author : Howard Greenfeld
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ben Shahn: An Artist’s Life by Howard Greenfeld Pdf

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 : Cynthia Levinson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781647003203

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The People's Painter by Cynthia Levinson Pdf

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 : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674805704

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The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn Pdf

"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--

Author : Diana L. Linden
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814339848

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Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals by Diana L. Linden Pdf

Lithuanian-born artist Ben Shahn learned fresco painting as an assistant to Diego Rivera in the 1930s and created his own visually powerful, technically sophisticated, and stylistically innovative artworks as part of the New Deal Arts Project’s national mural program. In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene author Diana L. Linden demonstrates that Shahn mined his Jewish heritage and left-leaning politics for his style and subject matter, offering insight into his murals’ creation and their sometimes complicated reception by officials, the public, and the press. In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select Shahn murals that were created from 1933 to 1943 and are located in public buildings in New York, New Jersey, and Missouri. She studies Shahn’s famous untitled fresco for the Jersey Homesteads—a utopian socialist cooperative community populated with former Jewish garment workers and funded under the New Deal—Shahn’s mural for the Bronx Central Post Office, a fresco Shahn proposed to the post office in St. Louis, and a related one-panel easel painting titled The First Amendment located in a Queens, New York, post office. By investigating the role of Jewish identity in Shahn’s works, Linden considers the artist’s responses to important issues of the era, such as President Roosevelt’s opposition to open immigration to the United States, New York’s bustling garment industry and its labor unions, ideological concerns about freedom and liberty that had signifcant meaning to Jews, and the encroachment of censorship into American art. Linden shows that throughout his public murals, Shahn literally painted Jews into the American scene with his subjects, themes, and compositions. Readers interested in Jewish American history, art history, and Depression-era American culture will enjoy this insightful volume.

Author : Frances Kathryn Pohl,Ben Shahn
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9781566403139

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Ben Shahn by Frances Kathryn Pohl,Ben Shahn Pdf

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 : Seldman Rodman,Ben Shahn
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258104121

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Portrait of the Artist as an American, Ben Shahn by Seldman Rodman,Ben Shahn Pdf

Author : Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.),Allentown Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691004072

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Common Man, Mythic Vision by Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn,Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.),Allentown Art Museum Pdf

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 : Ben Shahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Artists
ISBN : LCCN:66026546

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The Biography of a Painting by Ben Shahn Pdf

"Ben Shahn published this marvelous book that is a meditation on the creative process. The Biography of a Painting is full of Shahn's most creative pieces that illustrate the life cycle of a painting's creation. Acceptance, rejection and the evolving process that forms an artist's work. And of course, Shahn discusses his world view and how that intersects with his work."--Www.etsy.com.

Author : Howard Greenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000058185728

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The Devil and Dr. Barnes by Howard Greenfeld Pdf

Biography of Dr. Barnes, one of the most colorful, bizarre, and visionary figure in the American art world in the last century.

Author : John Raeburn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780252056185

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Ben Shahn's American Scene by John Raeburn Pdf

The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Author : Nell Painter
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640092006

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Old In Art School by Nell Painter Pdf

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart's desires, no matter your age” (Essence). Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school––in her sixties––to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived. How are women and artists seen and judged by their age, looks, and race? What does it mean when someone says, “You will never be an artist”? Who defines what an artist is and all that goes with such an identity, and how are these ideas tied to our shared conceptions of beauty, value, and difference? Bringing to bear incisive insights from two careers, Painter weaves a frank, funny, and often surprising tale of her move from academia to art in this "glorious achievement––bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).

Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822012727046

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For the Sake of a Single Verse ... by Ben Shahn Pdf

More than twenty stories from the Alaskan Tlingit tradition are accompanied by information on its culture, history and art.

Author : Ben Shahn,James Thrall Soby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:319510011430443

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Paintings by Ben Shahn,James Thrall Soby Pdf

Author : James Thrall Soby,Ben Shahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258802031

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Ben Shahn by James Thrall Soby,Ben Shahn Pdf

Author : Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691004064

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Common Man, Mythic Vision by Susan Chevlowe,Diana L. Linden,Ben Shahn Pdf

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.