Research Catalog

Title

Art for the millions : American culture and politics in the 1930s / Allison Rudnick ; with contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, Max Fraser, Rachel Mustalish.

Author

Rudnick, Allison

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
• New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buick, Kirsten Pai
• Fraser, Max (Professor)
• Mustalish, Rachel
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Description

207 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

Focusing on the unprecedented dissemination of art and ideas brought about by new technology and government programs, this publication examines the search for artistic identity in the United States from the stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression to the closure of the Works Progress Administration in 1943. During this time of civil, economic, and social unrest, artists transmitted political ideas and propaganda through a wide range of media, including paintings and sculptures, but also journals, prints, textiles, postcards, and other objects that would have been widely collected, experienced, or encountered. Insightful essays discuss but go beyond the era's best-known creators, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, to highlight artists who have received little scholarly attention, including women and artists of color as well as designers and illustrators. Emphasizing the contributions of the Black Popular Front and Leftist movements while acknowledging competing visions of the country through the lenses of race, gender, and class, Art for the Millions is a timely look at art in the United States made by and for its people. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (07.09-10.12.2023)

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Political aspects > History > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art and society > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Social problems in art > Exhibitions
• Art, American
• Art and society
• Art > Political aspects
• Social problems in art
• Art
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 6 through December 10, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.

Contents

Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Note to the reader -- Shifting politics and the visual culture of the 1930s / Allison Rudnick -- "We artists must act" : left-wing artists and the Great Depression / Max Fraser -- Representational activism and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts / Kirsten Pai Buck -- Materials, identity, and independence / Rachel Mustalish -- Plates -- Leftist politics and labor -- Cultural nationalisms -- The promise of progress -- Notes -- List of plates -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Photography credits.

Call Number

Sc F 23-496

ISBN

• 1588397696
• 9781588397690

OCLC

1375553144

Author

Rudnick, Allison, author.

Title

Art for the millions : American culture and politics in the 1930s / Allison Rudnick ; with contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, Max Fraser, Rachel Mustalish.

Publisher

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Buick, Kirsten Pai, contributor.

Fraser, Max (Professor), contributor.

Mustalish, Rachel, contributor.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-496

JQF 23-1391