New Deal Art In Alabama

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621144
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book New Deal Art in Alabama written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, “artists had to eat, too,” and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art—murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings—of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933–1943).

Author : John Franklin White
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810820074
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Art in Action written by John Franklin White and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Francis V. O'Connor
Publisher : Washington : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The New Deal Art Projects written by Francis V. O'Connor and published by Washington : Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1972 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786437790
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book New Deal Art in North Carolina written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover during the Great Depression, 42 towns in North Carolina would benefit directly from the $83 million the federal government allocated for public art as part of the New Deal. The result was some of the state's most memorable murals, sculptures, reliefs, paintings, oils, and frescoes, most of which were installed in post offices and courthouses. This book is the only record of all of the North Carolina public art works under the program. It provides in-depth accounts of the works themselves and the artists who created them. Photographs of all of the buildings that originally received the art, the works themselves, and almost all of the 41 artists are provided. An appendix describes federal art projects, 1933-1943. There are detailed footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an index.

Author : Sharon Ann Musher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022624721X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Democratic Art written by Sharon Ann Musher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn’t always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million—roughly $461 million today—to supporting tens of thousands of needy artists, who used that support to create more than 100,000 works. Why did the government become so involved with these artists, and why weren’t these projects considered a frivolous waste of funds, as surely many would be today? In Democratic Art, Sharon Musher explores these questions and uses them as a springboard for an examination of the role art can and should play in contemporary society. Drawing on close readings of government-funded architecture, murals, plays, writing, and photographs, Democratic Art examines the New Deal’s diverse cultural initiatives and outlines five perspectives on art that were prominent at the time: art as grandeur, enrichment, weapon, experience, and subversion. Musher argues that those engaged in New Deal art were part of an explicitly cultural agenda that sought not just to create art but to democratize and Americanize it as well. By tracing a range of aesthetic visions that flourished during the 1930s, this highly original book outlines the successes, shortcomings, and lessons of the golden age of government funding for the arts.

Author : Ann Prentice Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book 1934 written by Ann Prentice Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662975
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women, Art and the New Deal written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alabama State Council on the Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book New South, New Deal and Beyond written by Alabama State Council on the Arts and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622124
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed. written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), to the latest and youngest female Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai (2014), this book in its second edition provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of each of these sixteen Prize winners. They did not expect recognition or fame for their work--economist Emily Greene Balch (1946) was surprised to learn that anyone knew about her. But they did not work in isolation: all met with discouragement, derision, threats or--in Yousafazi's case--attempted murder and exile. A history of the Prize and a biographical sketch of Alfred Nobel are included.

Author : Elliot A. Knight
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320105
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Alabama Creates written by Elliot A. Knight and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists