4. Communist Artists and the New Deal (1): The Federal Art Projects before the People’s Front

Hemingway, Andrew

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4. Communist Artists and the New Deal (1): The Federal Art Projects before the People’s Front

Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement 1926–1956

~In the last chapter I considered ways in which works by artists associated with the Communist movement functioned in the different environments of the John Reed Club and Whitney Museum exhibitions. The question addressed in this chapter is related, namely: what meanings did works by these same artists acquire when they were produced in the context of the first of...

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Andrew Hemingway

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.75-100

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00025.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17853

Chapter subject tags:Communism and artFederal Art ProjectDepressions--1929Artists--Labor unionsPublic Works of Art Project (U.S.)Coit Memorial Tower (San Francisco, Calif.)New Deal, 1933-1939African American artistsPolitics and culture--United States--History--20th century

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