Shape of Content

Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was an American painter, lithographer, and photographer. His work, commenting on major social issues such as racial discrimination, labor conditions, and the threat of atomic warfare, has been featured in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

• Artists in Colleges The Biography of a Painting The Shape of Content On Nonconformity Modern Evaluations The Education of an Artist

The book is the clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read.