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"Looking behind the scenes at the personalities and policies of such venerable institutions as the Federal Arts Project and the Museum of Modern Art, A. Joan Saab discerns a broad-based democratic modernism, inspired by and engaged with the social life of the period." "The idea of treating the artist as a "producing worker" and art as an "everyday part of living and working" was a novel one in 1935 and illustrated a broad shift in the social roles of both. Prior to the 1930s, art in America had resided principally in the domain of the cultural elite. The upheaval of the Depression era, however, challenged this authority. Throughout the decade, government officials, museum professionals, educators, and artists worked together to determine not only what role artists would play in society but also what forms democratic art would take and how widely it would be disseminated, thus fundamentally redefining the relationship between art and society. This egalitarian artistic movement of the 1930s stands as a significant moment in the ongoing dialogue over the relationship of art and public life that continues today."--BOOK JACKET.
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For the millions: American art and culture between the wars
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For The Millions: American Art And Culture Between The Wars (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America)
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"In a short pamphlet entitled American Taste (1929), the cultural critic Lewis Mumford lamented "the general debacle of taste" in the United States from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century."
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