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Federal Art And National Culture Examines The Role Of The Visual Arts In The United States During The 1930s. Analyzing The Federal Art Project, A New Deal Agency That Organized Workers In Programs Designed To Put The Unemployed Back To Work, It Draws On Theories Of The State, Cultural Production And Ideology As They Pertain To Roosevelt's Social Agenda. This Study Also Considers Visual Art Of The Depression Years In The Context Of A Broader American Culture, At A Time When Radical Politics Of The Left And Right Were Rampant. It Engages, Moreover, In Debates Over Modernism And Modernity In Culture And The Visual Arts. 1. The Depression And The New Deal: Artistic Production In The Early 1930s -- 2. The Administrative Organization Of The Federal Art Project: Power, Possession And State Cultural Populism -- 3. Nationalizing Art: The Community Art Center Program -- 4. Technologies Of The Soul: Federal Art In Institutions -- 5. Indexing American Design: The Construction Of A National Historicity -- 6. State Cultural Strategies: Community, Planning And The New York World's Fair Of 1939-1940 -- 7. The End Of The Federal Art Project: Art, Politics And The State. Jonathan Harris. Includes Bi

Author

Jonathan P Harris

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521442688

Subjects

Military, Art, Arts