Research Catalog

Title

Ben Shahn's New York : the photography of modern times / Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman & Jenna Webster.

Author

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kao, Deborah Martin
• Katzman, Laura
• Webster, Jenna
• Harvard University. Art Museums
• Fogg Art Museum

Description

viii, 340 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of documentary street photographs taken by artist Ben Shahn in New York City in the early 1930s, with text that examines the social history of the pictures, as well as an analysis of Shahn's motives and the importance of his art.

Alternative Title

New York

Subject

• Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 > Exhibitions
• Documentary photography > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
• New York (N.Y.) in art > Exhibitions
• New York (N.Y.) > In art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• works of art.
• Art
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Œuvres d'art.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Harvard University Art Museums,Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 5-Apr. 30, 2000; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C, June 10-Aug. 27, 2000; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, N.Y., Oct. 15, 2000-Jan. 27, 2001; the David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Apr. 19-June 17, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ben Shahn's New York : scenes from the living theater / Laura Katzman -- Ben Shahn and the public use of art / Deborah Martin Kao -- Ben Shahn and the master medium / Jenna Webster -- The politics of media : painting and photography in the art of Ben Shahn / Laura Katzman. Notes. Note to the reader. Exhibition catalogue. Greenwich Village and environs -- Union Square and Fourteenth Street -- The Lower East Side -- Middle West Side/Middle East Side -- Artists' protest -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- Contemporary American photography. Appendix : contemporary documents. Ben Shahn's New York -- Artists' protests -- Rikers Island Penitentary mural project -- The politics of media.

ISBN

• 0300083157 (cloth)
• 0300083254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1891771124 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99053647^

OCLC

• 42683024
• SCSB-11648377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library