Ben Shahn - Softcover

Frances K. Pohl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156640312X ISBN 13: 9781566403122

Publisher: Pomegranate, 1993

Synopsis

Frontispiece, acknowledgments, table of contents, select bibliography, index. Follows Shahn's career as a social realist, focusing on the impact of important historical events on his work. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. 167+ 1 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 4to..

About this title

From Library Journal:

This excellent overview of Shahn's complicated life and work is extensively illustrated with photographs and reproductions, in black-and-white and color, of work from all phases of his 50-year career. Pohl, the author of Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954 ( LJ 8/89), details the early impact of the Sacco and Vanzetti case on Shahn's attitudes and examines the sociopolitical activism that continued throughout his life. Accompanying the illustrations are selections from Shahn's extensive writings on art and life, as well as an wide-ranging secondary source bibliography (compiled by Stephen Lee Taller) that includes writings by and interviews with the artist, exhibition reviews, and, most interestingly, a section on Shahn's illustrations. Recommended for collections of modern and American art.-- Martin R. Kalfatovic, Natl. Museum of American Art/Natl. Portrait Gallery Lib., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 156640312X
• ISBN 13: 9781566403122
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168