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| First gallery dedicated to display and sale of American Art |
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Eight main artists of the Ashcan School
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is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
Included "The Eight"
wanted to liken painting to journalism |
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Communist magazine, socialist work for social magazine
praised by Ashcan School |
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first black heavyweight champ
jim jeffreys challeneged him, johnson won
race riots ensued |
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Named from the color of newsprint that was used during the time period
little to no actual news presented
sensationalist journalism |
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a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action
opposed to fear of immigrants
anti child labor
created public school system so immigrant children could learn |
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| How the Other Half Lives, 1890 |
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| Publication by photojournalist Jacob Riis dipicting gritty underbelly of city slums. |
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| Ethical Culture/Ethical Culture School |
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Progressivist school
taught immigrant children nature studies
alternate to religion |
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| The National Child Labor Committee |
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| hired Hines to help bring child labor into the spot light so it could be abolished |
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photomontage posters for the NCLC.
one of them was bringing to light how they forged work certificates so they could work |
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| Hine's work was published here and that is where he was discovered by the NCLC |
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Hine's book that celebrated adult labor
showed man controlling machines |
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Book by Alfred Steigletz
expensive because it had high quality prints |
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| photographs emilating painting to be regarded as high art |
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| The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession |
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| The International Exhibition of Modern Art |
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1914 Armory Show
1300 pieces
lots of critical response
increased audience for modern art |
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nihilist philosophy started in switzerland after wwi
as response to the war
anti master piece and that art shouldn't make sense |
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An offshoot Dada
interested in Freudian philosophy and dreams
wanted to be more purposeful and less experimental |
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| Ford's son who hired Diego Rivera to paint that mural |
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honoring san fransisco fire fighters
political murals created |
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Harlem Rennaisance
Afro American perspective on art
inspired by W.E.B. Dubois and Alan Locke |
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| said you should look at Africa for cultural roots |
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| Inspired Harlem Rennaisance |
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FDR created government funded jobs to stimulate economy
art was a major element within the New Deal |
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| Work Progress Administration |
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| Farm Secuirty Administration |
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| FSA- gave money to farmers |
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Friends with Walker Evans
writer for Fortune Magazine
worked with Walker Evans at the Burroughs Family |
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| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
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| the book that Walker Evans and James Agee made together |
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Precise
Detailed
Realistic |
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anti-modernism
what constitutes american art
turns away from europe and urban environments
not always positive towards rural |
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| Office of War Administration |
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FSA was absorbed into it
showed American dream? |
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| Norman Rockwell, The Four Freedoms |
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Showing Want Fear Freedom and Speech
end of New Deal
OWI commissioned posters |
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