Women, Art and the New Deal

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history."Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-04
Mått178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476662978

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. New Deal Documentary2. Women, Documentary, the Depression, and the New Deal: A Convergence Beyond Conventional Wisdom3. The Individual Art Programs, the Women Involved4. Portraits of Modern Women Alone and Together: Face Forward, Standing on New Ground5. Beyond Portraits to Personification: Classical Imagery Transformed in Public Images of Women6. Specific Themes Developed: Selling Beauty and Sexuality7. Moving into Romantic Relationships: The Uncertainties of the New8. American Marriage—and Divorce9. Coping in a World of Violence: The Creation of the Modern Female Folk Hero10. Reproductive Rights and Motherhood11. Race and Class, and Gender12. Women at Work13. And the Subject of AgeIn Conclusion: “A Blazing Sun against a Black Sky”Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex

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