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Ben Shahn and the passion of Sacco and Vanzetti / organized by Alejandro Anreus.

Title
Ben Shahn and the passion of Sacco and Vanzetti / organized by Alejandro Anreus.
Author
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Publication
Jersey City, N.J. : Jersey City Museum ; [New Brunswick, N.J.] : Distributed by Rutgers University Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Anreus, Alejandro.
  • Jersey City Museum.
Description
ix, 149 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 26 cm.
Summary
Between 1931 and 1932, painter Ben Shahn created a series of 23 gouaches and temperas on the infamous trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Jersey City Museum presenting all the paintings in existence - 17 in all - from this series.
Alternative Title
Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Subject
  • Politics in art > Exhibitions
  • Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 > Exhibitions
  • Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921 > Exhibitions
  • Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 > Exhibitions
  • Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 > Exhibitions
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 12-Dec. 16, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ben Shahn, politics and art / Frances K. Pohl -- The Sacco-Vanzetti case: an overview / Nunzio Pernicone -- "Mechanical vision:" photography and mass media appropriation in Ben Shahn's Sacco and Vanzetti series / Laura Katzman -- What becomes an icon most?: the critical reception to Ben Shahn's 'The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti' / Diana L. Linden -- Ben Shahn and The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti / Alejandro Anreus.
ISBN
0813529441
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library