Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
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In four chapters, Linden presents case studies of select Shahn murals that were created from 1933 to 1943 and are located in public buildings in New York, New Jersey, and Missouri. She studies Shahn’s famous untitled fresco for the Jersey Homesteads—a utopian socialist cooperative community populated with former Jewish garment workers and funded under the New Deal—Shahn’s mural for the Bronx Central Post Office, a fresco Shahn proposed to the post office in St. Louis, and a related one-panel easel painting titled The First Amendment located in a Queens, New York, post office. By investigating the role of Jewish identity in Shahn’s works, Linden considers the artist’s responses to important issues of the era, such as President Roosevelt’s opposition to open immigration to the United States, New York’s bustling garment industry and its labor unions, ideological concerns about freedom and liberty that had signifcant meaning to Jews, and the encroachment of censorship into American art.
Linden shows that throughout his public murals, Shahn literally painted Jews into the American scene with his subjects, themes, and compositions. Readers interested in Jewish American history, art history, and Depression-era American culture will enjoy this insightful volume.
Diana L. Linden
Diana L. Linden is a historian of American art born in New York City and now residing in Claremont, California. Linden served as visual essayist for City of Promises: The History of Jews in New York, 1654–Present (three-volume series, Deborah Dash Moore, ed.), which was selected for National Jewish Book Award’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, and co-edited The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Americas with Alejandro Anreus and Jonathan Weinberg.
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