Ben Shahn: an Artist's Life - Hardcover

Greenfeld, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679419322 ISBN 13: 9780679419327

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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The first fully illustrated, definitive portrait of a major American artist of the twentieth century draws on family papers and personal interviews to chronicle the life and work of pianter, photographer, author, commercial artist, and teacher Ben Shahn. 12,500 first printing.

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Beginning in the thirties, he created bold and powerful paintings of often controversial subjects, and in particular his portraits of Sacco and Vanzetti caused a storm whenever they were exhibited. After working as an assistant to Diego Rivera on the ill-fated Rockefeller Center mural, he began creating his own arresting murals--in Washington, New York, and New Jersey--which are among the finest such works ever painted in this country. He also excelled as a photographer as one of the distinguished group known as the FSA photographers, which included Dorothea Lange and his close friend Walker Evans. His life  crossed the paths of many others, too, including Albert Einstein, Alexander Calder, William Carlos Williams, Archibald MacLeish, and S. J. Perelman.

During World War II, he produced some of the most striking and effective propaganda posters, before returning again to painting, always choosing subjects that touched a nerve and were just as often politically powerful.
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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679419322
• ISBN 13: 9780679419327
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366