Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty - Artist Ben Shahn

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Join award winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty as he presents a visual lecture: Ben Shahn and the Politics of Nonconformity.  From the 1930s through the 1960s Ben Shahn's painting and illustration addressed such issues as unemployment, discrimination, the rise of authoritarianism abroad, and threats to freedom of expression in the United States. Starting his career during the Great Depression, his art witnessed the rise of totalitarianism abroad and the anti-Communist hysteria of postwar America, as well as the Civil Rights movement. Shahn viewed nonconformity as the essence of avant-garde art as well as the agent of social change. His art was clearly modernist yet remained figurative and accessible to a wide, popular audience. A retrospective exhibition that spans the artist's long career is at the Jewish Museum in New York City from May through October.

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