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A fascinating history of the artistic innovation and political debates that took shape in New Deal–era murals

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“Patterson engagingly rewrites the history of midcentury art by questioning assumptions about the relationship between leftist politics and aesthetic sensibilities.”—Diana L. Linden, caa.reviews

“This informative and balanced book is an ideal guide to one aspect of the WPA, an organisation which left a lasting legacy.”—Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw

“Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions.”—Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis



“A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history.”—Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Modernism for the Masses Painters Politics and

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 27 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9780300241396
      978-0300241396
      ISBN-10 0300241399
      Also in:
      Murals and wall paintings The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A fascinating history of the artistic innovation and political debates that took shape in New Deal–era murals

      Trade Review
      “Patterson engagingly rewrites the history of midcentury art by questioning assumptions about the relationship between leftist politics and aesthetic sensibilities.”—Diana L. Linden, caa.reviews

      “This informative and balanced book is an ideal guide to one aspect of the WPA, an organisation which left a lasting legacy.”—Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw

      “Modernism for the Masses explores the richness and range of modernist abstraction, recuperating, as no other book in the field does, its political and social ambitions.”—Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis



      “A work of original and impeccable scholarship on this short-lived but remarkable moment in history.”—Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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