New Deal Art In Alabama

Author : Anita Price Davis,Jimmy S. Emerson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476621142

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New Deal Art in Alabama by Anita Price Davis,Jimmy S. Emerson Pdf

As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, “artists had to eat, too,” and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art—murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings—of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933–1943).

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786437795

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New Deal Art in North Carolina by Anita Price Davis Pdf

As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover during the Great Depression, 42 towns in North Carolina would benefit directly from the $83 million the federal government allocated for public art as part of the New Deal. The result was some of the state's most memorable murals, sculptures, reliefs, paintings, oils, and frescoes, most of which were installed in post offices and courthouses. This book is the only record of all of the North Carolina public art works under the program. It provides in-depth accounts of the works themselves and the artists who created them. Photographs of all of the buildings that originally received the art, the works themselves, and almost all of the 41 artists are provided. An appendix describes federal art projects, 1933-1943. There are detailed footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

Author : Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476662978

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Women, Art and the New Deal by Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene Pdf

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

Author : Francis V. O'Connor
Publisher : Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015007573952

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The New Deal Art Projects by Francis V. O'Connor Pdf

Author : Alabama State Council on the Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Alabama
ISBN : IND:30000050907975

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New South, New Deal and Beyond by Alabama State Council on the Arts Pdf

Author : Anita Price Davis,Marla J. Selvidge
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476622125

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Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed. by Anita Price Davis,Marla J. Selvidge Pdf

From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of each of these sixteen Prize winners. They did not expect recognition or fame for their work--economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was surprised to learn that anyone knew about her. But they did not work in isolation: all met with discouragement, derision, threats or--in Yousafazi's case--attempted murder and exile. A history of the Prize and a biographical sketch of Alfred Nobel are included.

Author : Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665503396

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Amazing Alabama: a Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories by Joseph W. Lewis Jr. M.D. Pdf

Amazing Alabama: A Potpourri of Fascinating Facts, Tall Tales and Storied Stories chronicles a brief history of the state, famous personages associated with Alabama, a discussion of state firsts, unique occurrences, antiquated laws and other fascinating topics.

Author : Elliot A. Knight
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817320102

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Alabama Creates by Elliot A. Knight Pdf

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists

Author : Mary Ann Calo
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271095738

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African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs by Mary Ann Calo Pdf

This book examines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists’ works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these federal art projects is best understood in the context of access to opportunity, mediated by the reality of racial segregation. Focusing primarily on the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Calo documents African American artists’ participation in community art centers in Harlem, in St. Louis, and throughout the South. She examines the internal workings of the Harlem Artists’ Guild, the Guild’s activities during the 1930s, and its alliances with other groups, such as the Artists’ Union and the National Negro Congress. Calo also explores African American artists’ representation in the exhibitions sponsored by WPA administrators and the critical reception of their work. In doing so, she elucidates the evolving meanings of the terms race, culture, and community in the interwar era. The book concludes with an essay by Jacqueline Francis on Black artists in the early 1940s, after the end of the FAP program. Presenting essential new archival information and important insights into the experiences of Black New Deal artists, this study expands the factual record and positions the cumulative evidence within the landscape of critical race studies. It will be welcomed by art historians and American studies scholars specializing in early twentieth-century race relations.

Author : John Franklin White
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810820072

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Art in Action by John Franklin White Pdf

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Author : Leslie Umberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182674

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Between Worlds by Leslie Umberger Pdf

"Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor--by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery--took up pencil and paintbrush to attest to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, Leslie Umberger considers more than two hundred artworks to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the artist to date; she examines his life, art, and powerful drive to bear witness through the only means he had, pictures. The author draws on a wealth of historical documents--including federal and state census records, birth and death certificates, slave schedules, and interviews with family members-- to clarify the record of Traylor's personal history and family life. The story of his art opens in the late 1930s, when Traylor first received attention for his pencil drawings on found board, and concludes with the posthumous success of his oeuvre"--

Author : Jennifer McLerran
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0816527660

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A New Deal for Native Art by Jennifer McLerran Pdf

As the Great Depression touched every corner of America, the New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American peoples. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous artists predisposed them to favor pre-industrial forms rather than art that responded to contemporary markets. In A New Deal for Native Art, Jennifer McLerran reveals how positioning the native artist as a pre-modern Other served the goals of New Deal programsÑand how this sometimes worked at cross-purposes with promoting native self-sufficiency. She describes federal policies of the 1930s and early 1940s that sought to generate an upscale market for Native American arts and crafts. And by unraveling the complex ways in which commodification was negotiated and the roles that producers, consumers, and New Deal administrators played in that process, she sheds new light on native artÕs commodity status and the artistÕs position as colonial subject. In this first book to address the ways in which New Deal Indian policy specifically advanced commodification and colonization, McLerran reviews its multi-pronged effort to improve the market for Indian art through the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. Presenting nationwide case studies that demonstrate transcultural dynamics of production and reception, she argues for viewing Indian art as a commodity, as part of the national economy, and as part of national political trends and reform efforts. McLerran marks the contributions of key individuals, from John Collier and Rene dÕHarnoncourt to Navajo artist Gerald Nailor, whose mural in the Navajo Nation Council House conveyed distinctly different messages to outsiders and tribal members. Featuring dozens of illustrations, A New Deal for Native Art offers a new look at the complexities of folk art ÒrevivalsÓ as it opens a new window on the Indian New Deal.

Author : Kathryn Flynn
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1423613791

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The New Deal by Kathryn Flynn Pdf

2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration gave hope, support, and encouragement to millions of Americans. Several New deal programs, including Social Security, continue to help Americans today.

Author : Martin R. Kalfatovic
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015034897259

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The New Deal Fine Arts Projects by Martin R. Kalfatovic Pdf

...fills another important need for art researchers. New Deal art is the product of the largest publicly funded arts program in American history and as such, holds a special attraction for collectors... --ANTIQUE WEEK ...a valuable reference resource. Highly recommended for all research collections serving American history and art.--LIBRARY JOURNAL

Author : Jason Scott Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521877213

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A Concise History of the New Deal by Jason Scott Smith Pdf

This book provides a history of the New Deal, exploring the institutional, political, and cultural changes experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.