America after the fall : painting in the 1930s / edited by Judith A. Barter ; with essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah L. Burns, Teresa A. Carbone, Annelise K. Madsen, and Sarah Kelly Oehler.
"Through 50 masterpieces of American painting, this catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation's artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression in...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
The Art Institute of Chicago,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prairie pastoral / Judith A. Barter
- American made? Transatlantic expressions in the 1930s / Sarah Kelly Oehler
- Reviving the old and telling tales: 1930s modernism and the uses of American history / Annelise K. Madsen
- Death, decay, and dystopia: painting the American wasteland in the 1930s / Sarah L. Burns
- Busted seams and bad behavior : bodies for the 1930s / Teresa A. Carbone
- Americanness after the 1930s / Judith A. Barter.