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Raphael Soyer. In the City Park. 1935
-Walter Broe appears a lot, homeless man who helped him out,
appears in many other paintings
-their right to live permit was evoked in Russia because they were jewish so they came to america
-he identified with the homeless very much
-because jews are constantly being expelled |
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Ben Shahn. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. 1930
-made a whole series
-jewish also
-"Tikkum Olam" repair the world, jews fight for justice and equality
-these guys were anarchists and were arrested for armed robbery BUT they were scapegoats and executed unjustly
-people knew they were scapegoats but just blamed them because they were Italian
-hypocritical mourners and bars are in the background |
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Louis Lozowick. Lynching. 1936
-All the detail shadowing are great
-a self-portrait
-he felt threatened at the time, jewish background
-lynching is happening and is a recurrent subject in art |
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Peter Blume. The Eternal City. 1937
-not really a social realism (social surrealism)
-but still a comment on society
-Musselini is the head of the jack in a box
-Persicionist, took him years for a single canvas
-commentary on fascism,
-Musselini hated art or didnt care about it
-critics said the color was offensive and not harmonious |
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Isabel Bishop. Lunch Hour. c. 1940
-young working girls
-a new phenomenon
-they are independent
-subject to a gaze |
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Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California. 1935
-Not Social Realism
-FSA document photographs
-they gave work to photographers |
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Ben Shahn. Rehabilitation Clients. Boone County, Arkansas. 1935
-FSA photo
-used some of his photos for painting
-it was a way of seeing for him and helped him go deeper into painting
-so many textures and patterns |
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Margaret Bourke-White. First Life Cover. Fort Peck Dam, Montana, November 23. 1936
-photo essay was a major mode
-commercial not government
-very iconic
-turns this into modernistic conception shapes, people are shapes |
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