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100	1		_aLanga, Helen.
245	1	0	_aRadical art : _bprintmaking and the left in 1930s New York / _cHelen Langa.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2004.
300			_aviii, 341 p. : _bill. ; _c27 cm.
500			_a"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: social viewpoint prints, cultural democracy, and leftist politics -- "Art for the millions": printmaking in New York in the 1930s -- Modern styles, radical themes -- Imag(in)ing labor: fine prints and their historical contexts -- Protesting societal injustice: antiracism in 1930s prints -- Horror and outrage: printmakers against war and fascism -- Transient opportunities: cultural politics and social viewpoint prints.
520			_aPublisher description: During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing the ideal of creating "art for the millions." In this dynamic book, Helen Langa shows how innovative printmakers developed "social viewpoint" works that focused on contemporary issues of labor justice, antiracism, and antifascist activism. Discussing artists such as Aaron Douglas, Mabel Dwight, Boris Gorelick, Harry Gottlieb, Elizabeth Olds, Harry Sternberg, Joseph Vogel, and Hale Woodruff, Langa explains how they developed new types of meaningful content, worked in modern, yet accessible, styles, invented new technical processes, and sought fresh strategies for distributing their work to the public. Many, but not all, of the artists she considers worked for the Federal Art Project at the Graphic Arts Division workshop each struggled to resolve the conflicting goals of reaching a mass audience while also critiquing social injustice and promoting radical idealism. Helen Langa is Associate Professor of Art History at American University.
650		0	_aPrints, American _zNew York (State) _zNew York _y20th century.
650		0	_aSocial problems in art.
650		0	_aArtists _xPolitical activity.
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