An edition of America today (1936)

America today

a book of 100 prints chosen and exhibited by the American Artists' Congress.

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An edition of America today (1936)

America today

a book of 100 prints chosen and exhibited by the American Artists' Congress.

American Today; New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1936. First Printing. Quarto. 14pp. Plus one hundred black & white plates. Original cream color cloth over boards with black stamped lettering on spine and front panel. Contains many examples of American printmakers including Helen West Heller, Lynd Ward, Wanda Ga'g, Philip Evergood, Paul Cadmus, Miguel Covarrubias, Rockwell Kent, and many others. Each of the prints was chosen for the exhibition by American Artists' Congress


A December 17, 1936 New York Times advertisement for American Today stated: Those who ran New Deal art projects were often artists themselves, but they were artists who thought art should not be limited to an elite. They refused to restrict artistic creativity to those talented enough to paint museum-quality work or perform on a New York concert stage. Most New Deal artist-administrators believed deeply that the projects had a responsability to explore art's many expressions, to reach out to as many Americans as possible, and to put art to practical use.

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Language
English
Pages
100

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Exhibitions.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
769
Library of Congress
NE508 .A55

The Physical Object

Pagination
14 p., 1 l., 100 pl.
Number of pages
100

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6359289M
LCCN
37027044
OCLC/WorldCat
1185142
LibraryThing
1693372

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL7606463W

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