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When art worked / text by Roger G. Kennedy ; an illustrated documentary by David Larkin.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N8838 .K46 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Roger G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal Art Project.
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.).
- New Deal art.
- Art and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- Cultural policy.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Cultural policy--History--20th century.
- United States. Works Progress Administration.
- Historic American Buildings Survey.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Title on jacket: When art worked : the New Deal, art, and democracy
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rizzoli, 2009.
- Contents:
- The work of art
- The pursuit of happiness, the PWA, the WPA, and the arts
- Actionable art
- Indians, parks, the CCC, and the arts
- The WPA/FAP
- The art of Franklin Roosevelt
- Rexford Tugwell, Roy Stryker, photographers, folk music, and films
- Presidents and monuments
- Hugh Bennett, Walter Lowdermilk, and the eleventh commandment
- Lincoln and Roosevelt.
- Hugh Bennett, Walter Lowdermilk, and the Eleventh Commandment
- The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). PPA
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780847830893
- 0847830896
- OCLC:
- 303044613
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