Shape of Content

Shahn, Ben

ISBN 10: 0674805704 / ISBN 13: 9780674805705

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1957

About this Item

Underlining to tet; binding tight; store stickers & moderate wear to covers. 131 pages. Illustrated. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".

Seller Inventory # S198-049655

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shape of Content
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674805704
• ISBN 13: 9780674805705
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist―painter, writer, composer―to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.

About the Author

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.