Labnet: Book Ann: Labor's Canvas

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Book ann: Labor's Canvas
http://labourhistory.net/news/i0805_16.php 

Laura Hapke, 'American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the
1930s' (Cambridge Scholars Press, U.K.,2008). The book scrutinizes
intersections between the burgeoning and tumultous unionism of the Great
Depression and its representation (or omission) in New Deal art.

Discussions of forty illustrations from a labor historical perspective
by artists such as Raphae Soyer, Dox Thrash, Isabel Bishop, and Hugo
Gellert illuminate both relationships and tensions between WPA artists
and the labor subjects they were hired to depict.

'Labor's Canvas' includes chapters on Federal Artist Project cultural
politics; the WPA and FAP in relation to the AFL and CIO; the forging of
image about minorities such African American workingmen and female
breadwinners; and the FAP artist as blue-collar worker. It can be
ordered online through http://www.c-s-p.org. 



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