[PDF] Prints And Posters Of Ben Shahn eBook

Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1982-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486242880

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A collection of over 100 graphics, which offer a comprehensive view of Shahn's prolific output.

Author : Ben Shahn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674805705

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"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--

Author : Frances Kathryn Pohl
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1566403138

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BEN SHAHN offers a comprehensive look at the art work of one of the leading social realists of our time. The book includes pieces done in the 1930s depicting the effects of the Depression, urban decay, labor strikes & poverty. Brilliant posters created for the Office of War Information during World War II describe Shahn's work in the 1940s. The book explores the artist's post-war transition from a social realism to a "personal realism," employing allegory & symbolism. Through discussions of his political views, his struggles to maintain artistic integrity, as well as through selections of Shahn's own writings, the author weaves a compelling portrait of the man & his work. BEN SHAHN includes an extensive bibliography. Other Pomegranate books dedicated to twentieth-century American artists: CHILDE HASSAM'S NEW YORK, by Ilene Susan Fort, ISBN 1-55640-317-0, $21.95; EDWARD HOPPER'S NEW ENGLAND, by Carl Little, ISBN 1-55640-315-4, $21.95; & STEWARD DAVIS'S ABSTRACT ARGOT, by William Wilson, ISBN 1-55640-316-2.

Author : Cynthia Levinson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647003202

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A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn “The first thing I can remember,” Ben said, “I drew.” As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees—and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers’ rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what’s right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art—by disarming classmates who bully him because he’s Jewish, by defying his teachers’ insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.