Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life

Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture
Cover of the book Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life by Howard Greenfeld, Plunkett Lake Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Howard Greenfeld ISBN: 1230000281773
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press Publication: November 20, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Howard Greenfeld
ISBN: 1230000281773
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Publication: November 20, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1906. Trained as a lithographer, Shahn created social realist paintings of controversial subjects such as Sacco and Vanzetti. He worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera on Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, and later created his own public murals in Washington, New York, and New Jersey. In 1935, Walker Evans invited him to join the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration. As a photographer, Shahn documented the Depression in the American South with Evans and Dorothea Lange. During the war years, he worked for the Office of War Information (OWI) producing propaganda posters before returning to painting. Toward the end of his life he worked as a commercial artist, taught and wrote about art, including *The Biography of a Painting* (1956) and *The Shape of Content* (1960). Howard Greenfeld's biography is the first complete life of the artist and is illustrated with 90 of his photographs, pictures, and paintings.

“Howard Greenfeld’s approach scrupulously balances the personal and the political to provide a rounded portrait... gives a convincing sense of a determined individual making his mark as an immigrant in the turbulent America of depression and war, social upheaval and reaction.” — David Cohen, The New York Times

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1906. Trained as a lithographer, Shahn created social realist paintings of controversial subjects such as Sacco and Vanzetti. He worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera on Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, and later created his own public murals in Washington, New York, and New Jersey. In 1935, Walker Evans invited him to join the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration. As a photographer, Shahn documented the Depression in the American South with Evans and Dorothea Lange. During the war years, he worked for the Office of War Information (OWI) producing propaganda posters before returning to painting. Toward the end of his life he worked as a commercial artist, taught and wrote about art, including *The Biography of a Painting* (1956) and *The Shape of Content* (1960). Howard Greenfeld's biography is the first complete life of the artist and is illustrated with 90 of his photographs, pictures, and paintings.

“Howard Greenfeld’s approach scrupulously balances the personal and the political to provide a rounded portrait... gives a convincing sense of a determined individual making his mark as an immigrant in the turbulent America of depression and war, social upheaval and reaction.” — David Cohen, The New York Times

More books from Plunkett Lake Press

Cover of the book Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Enrico Fermi, Physicist by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Henrik Ibsen by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Balzac by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist by Howard Greenfeld
Cover of the book The Question by Howard Greenfeld
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy