Victor Arnautoff And The Politics Of Art

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252099243

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Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art by Robert W. Cherny Pdf

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.

Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520219775

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Painting on the Left by Anthony W. Lee Pdf

During the 1930s San Francisco's most ambitious public murals were painted by artists on the left. In this study, Anthony Lee shows how these painters, led by Diego Rivera, sought to transform murals into a vehicle for their rejection of the economic and political status quo and their support of labor and radical ideologies, including Communism. In addressing these subjects, the mural painters developed a new imagery, based on the activities of the city's laboring population - its efforts to organize, its protests, its strikes.

Author : Harriet F. Senie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781640124998

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Monumental Controversies by Harriet F. Senie Pdf

Amid modern-day racial unrest, a national pandemic, and a political divisiveness that seems to have become a dominant feature of American discourse, Harriet F. Senie offers a thoughtful reflection on the complex legacies of the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 027104716X

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The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suzanne Woodbury Lombardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3489974

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Politics and Humanism in the Depression Era Frescoes of Victor Arnautoff by Suzanne Woodbury Lombardi Pdf

Author : Robert W Cherny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252088352

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The Coit Tower Murals by Robert W Cherny Pdf

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most of them in buon fresco, Nearly all of them drew upon the palette and style of Diego Rivera. The project boosted the careers of Victor Arnautoff, Lucien Labaudt, Bernard Zakheim, and others, but Communist symbols in a few murals sparked the first of many national controversies over New Deal art. Sixty full-color photographs illustrate Robert Cherny's history of the murals from their conception and completion through their evolution into a beloved San Francisco landmark. Cherny traces and critiques the treatment of the murals by art critics and historians. He also probes the legacies of Coit Tower and the PWAP before surveying San Francisco's recent controversies over New Deal murals. An engaging account of an artistic landmark, The Coit Tower Murals tells the full story behind a public art masterpiece.

Author : Julius Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770487376

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Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love by Julius Bailey Pdf

The election of President Donald Trump, through his campaign of race-baiting, sexual harassment, and blatant disregard for human decency, lowered the moral bar of American public discourse. Julius Bailey’s latest book discusses the current state of hypocrisy and mistrust in the American political system, especially as these affect ethnic minorities and low-income groups. In powerful and inspiring prose, Bailey writes with a voice well informed by current events, empirical data, and philosophical observation. Bailey looks at the causes and consequences of this new era and applies his passionate yet astute analysis to issues such as hate speech, gerrymandering, the use of the Confederate flag, and America’s relationship with the gun.

Author : Masha Zakheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : California
ISBN : UCSD:31822001433689

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Coit Tower, San Francisco, Its History and Art by Masha Zakheim Pdf

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803236080

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California Women and Politics by Robert W. Cherny Pdf

An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252056710

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San Francisco Reds by Robert W. Cherny Pdf

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny draws on FBI files, the records of the CP at the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, interviews, and memoirs to follow male and female party and union leaders, rank-and-file members, and others. His history reveals why people joined the CP while charting the frequent changes in policy, constant member turnover, and disruptive factionalism that limited party aims and successes. Cherny also follows his subjects through their resignations, expulsions, or other reasons for departure and looks at the CP’s influence on their lives in subsequent years. Vivid and exhaustively researched, San Francisco Reds is a long view account of the personal motivations and activism of an Old Left generation in a West Coast city.

Author : James Oles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780520344402

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Diego Rivera's America by James Oles Pdf

Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than division, was paramount. This volume accompanies a major exhibition highlighting Diego Rivera’s work in Mexico and the United States from the early 1920s through the mid-1940s. During this time in his prolific career, Rivera created a new vision for the Americas, on both national and continental levels, informed by his time in both countries. Rivera’s murals in Mexico and the U.S. serve as points of departure for a critical and contemporary understanding of one of the most aesthetically, socially, and politically ambitious artists of the twentieth century. Works featured include the greatest number of paintings and drawings from this period reunited since the artist’s lifetime, presented alongside fresco panels and mural sketches. This catalogue serves as a guide to two crucial decades in Rivera’s career, illuminating his most important themes, from traditional markets to modern industry, and devoting attention to iconic paintings as well as works that will be new even to scholars—revealing fresh insights into his artistic process. Published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with University of California Press Exhibition dates: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: July 16, 2022—January 1, 2023 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas: March 11—July 31, 2023

Author : Michael J. Pearce
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527594128

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Kitsch, Propaganda, and the American Avant-Garde by Michael J. Pearce Pdf

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.

Author : Vernon L. Pedersen,James G. Ryan,Katherine A. S. Sibley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135765

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Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party by Vernon L. Pedersen,James G. Ryan,Katherine A. S. Sibley Pdf

Of all the 'third party' movements in American history, none have been as controversial as the Communist Party of the United States of America. Although denounced as a tool of the Soviet Union, accused of espionage and charged with advocating the revolutionary overthrow of the American government, before WWII it had been an accepted part of the political landscape. This collection offers an intriguing insight into this controversial political party in light of the Moscow archives that were made accessible after the end of the Cold War. This collection of original essays explores new aspects in the history of American Communism, drawing on a range of documents from Moscow and Eastern Europe. Examining traditional subjects in the light of new evidence, the essays cover a range of topics including party leaders, espionage, campaigns against racism, the Spanish Civil War, communism and gender, the fate of members after the McCarthy era and ways in which Communists became Anti-Communists.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:31951D03564363C

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Communist Political Subversion, Part 1, 2 by United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0806126671

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A Righteous Cause by Robert W. Cherny Pdf

Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908), and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post-Civil War economic growth. In this book, Robert W. Cherny traces Bryan’s major political crusades for a new currency policy, prohibition, and women’s suffrage, and against colonialism, monopolies, America’s entry into World War I, and the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Drawing on Bryan’s writings and correspondence, Cherny presents Bryan’s key role in the Democratic Party’s transformation from a proponent of minimal government to an advocate of active government.