The shape of content / by Ben Shahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage book ; V-108.

A Vintage Book ; V-108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Penn Provenance:

McEntee, Pat (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 151 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 19 cm.

Manufacture:

Clinton, Mass. : Composed, printed and bound by The Colonial Press, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, [1957]

Contents:

Artists in colleges

The biography of a painting

The shape of content

On noncomformity

Modern evaluations

The education of an artist.

Notes:

"Illustrated with 34 drawings by the author."

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.

"Based on a series of six lectures that Mr. Shahn gave during a term as Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University ..."--Cover.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has autograph of Pat McEntee.

OCLC:

3180783