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Victor Arnautoff and the politics of art / Robert W. Cherny.

Title: Victor Arnautoff and the politics of art / Robert W. Cherny.
Author: Cherny, Robert W.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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xx, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table; 24 cm.

Summary

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. This biography intertwines the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. It traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.

Series Statement

The working class in American history

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books
Working class in American history

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

List of Illustrations ; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1: Childhood in a Troubled Land, 1896-1914; 2: "The Ineptitude of Command," 1915-1921; 3: Wandering Russians, 1921-1925; 4: "The Best Pupil in the Class," 1925-1929; 5: "Under Rivera's Guidance," 1929-1931; 6: "Perhaps the Most Gifted of the Local Muralists," 1931-1935; 7: King of Parilia, 1935-1941; 8: Art, Politics, and War, 1941-1945; 9: DETCOM and COMSAB, 1945-1953; 10: "An Unwanted Guest in America," 1953-1961; 11: "I Am Home," 1962-1979.

ISBN

9780252040788
0252040783
9780252082306
0252082303
9780252099243 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016037404

OCLC

956633848
SCSB-10356802

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Harvard Library