| ISBN13: | 9781032928098 |
| ISBN10: | 1032928093 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 216 pages |
| Size: | 246x174 mm |
| Weight: | 399 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 60 Illustrations, black & white; 8 Illustrations, color |
| 687 |
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
Social issues, social work
Arts in general
Regional studies
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age
Modernism, postmodernism
History of America
Art history in general
19th century and first half of 20th century
Other braches of fine arts
Graphic design
Organizational sociology
Further reading in the field of sociology
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)
Social issues, social work (charity campaign)
Arts in general (charity campaign)
Regional studies (charity campaign)
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign)
Modernism, postmodernism (charity campaign)
History of America (charity campaign)
Art history in general (charity campaign)
19th century and first half of 20th century (charity campaign)
Other braches of fine arts (charity campaign)
Graphic design (charity campaign)
Organizational sociology (charity campaign)
Further reading in the field of sociology (charity campaign)
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context
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This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.
Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters? diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America.
This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history, and American studies.
Introduction
1. The World Wants New Knowledge and Skills
2. The Art of Reading
3. Posters, Preservation, and Ecological Blindness
4. Marching on To Health
5. One Third of a Nation - Ill-Housed
Conclusion
