Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty - Postwar Illustration

Join award winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty for a visual presentation "Living the American Dream - Postwar Idealism and Cold War Anxiety."  In the decades after 1945, the United States experienced unprecedented prosperity, but anxiety about nuclear annihilation during the Cold War caused a widespread sense of dread.  Yet advertising of the era ignored these ominous undercurrents and represented instead a cheery, carefree world of things, an ideal that homogenized the diversity of life as actually lived into a simulacrum of the American Dream fulfilled.