Ben Shahn
by Shahn, Bernarda Bryson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; private-ownership stamp on ffep; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; /Good (DJ is lightly toned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.)
- ISBN 10
- 0810904950
- ISBN 13
- 9780810904958
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972. Hardcover. Good+ (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; private-ownership stamp on ffep; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; pages are lighty toned; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good (DJ is lightly toned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.). Red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration; color-illustrated DJ with green lettering; 373 pp. 145 color, 200 bw repros. This excellent overview of Shahn's complicated life and work is extensively illustrated with photographs and reproductions, in black-and-white and color, of work from all phases of his 50-year career. Pohl, the author of Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954 (LJ 8/89), details the early impact of the Sacco and Vanzetti case on Shahn's attitudes and examines the sociopolitical activism that continued throughout his life. Accompanying the illustrations are selections from Shahn's extensive writings on art and life, as well as an wide-ranging secondary source bibliography (compiled by Stephen Lee Taller) that includes writings by and interviews with the artist, exhibition reviews, and, most interestingly, a section on Shahn's illustrations. Recommended for collections of modern and American art. (By Martin R. Kalfatovic, Natl. Museum of American Art/Natl. Portrait Gallery Lib., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C.) Contents as follows: Preface -- Ben Shahn / by Bernarda Shahn -- "Aesthetics for the artist ..." -- Evolution of images -- Changing images -- Murals -- Drawings -- How an artist looks at aesthetics / by Ben Shahn -- Biographical outline -- Honorary degrees, awards, memberships.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197106
- Title
- Ben Shahn
- Author
- Shahn, Bernarda Bryson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; private-ownership stamp on ffep; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged;
- Jacket Condition
- Good (DJ is lightly toned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0810904950
- ISBN 13
- 9780810904958
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- American Painting; Biography; Monograph ; Shahn, Ben ; Biography ; Monograph
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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