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OverviewA mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner created ambitious works for the Williamsburg Housing Project, Floyd Bennett Field Airport, and the 1939 World’s Fair. Modernism for the Masses examines the public murals (realized and unrealized) of these and other abstract painters and the aesthetic controversy, political influence, and ideological warfare that surrounded them. Jody Patterson transforms standard narratives of modernism by reasserting the significance of the 1930s and explores the reasons for the omission of the mural’s history from chronicles of American art. Beautifully illustrated with the artists’ murals and little-known archival photographs, this book recovers the radical idea that modernist art was a vital part of everyday life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jody PattersonPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780300241396ISBN 10: 0300241399 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 27 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsPatterson engagingly rewrites the history of midcentury art by questioning assumptions about the relationship between leftist politics and aesthetic sensibilities. -Diana L. Linden, caa.reviews Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions. -Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history. -Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions. -Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history. -Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum Author InformationJody Patterson is Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Art History at Ohio State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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