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Homeless in Poland

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Description: Antifascism in American Art
From Pearl Harbor until the end of the Second World War, a number of American social-realist artists documented the fight against fascism from the viewpoint of the communist Left. However, a series of traumatic and disillusioning events at the end of the thirties—the 1939 Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, the 1939 Russian invasion of Poland, and the Russian defeat of Finland in 1940—had greatly diminished the ranks of American liberal and leftist artists committed to the Soviet Union. Each shift …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.133-169
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00017.009

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