Main entry:

Park, Marlene, 1931-

Title & Author:

Democratic vistas : post offices and public art in the New Deal / Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1984.

Description:

xx, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
Introduction: New Deal for public art -- You mean it's going to be up there all the time? -- The past as prologue: themes of history -- Frontier to future: themes of the 1930s -- Regionalism -- Architectural and visual solutions: convincing drawing, crowded sketches, and final intentions -- The realist coalition: artists and styles of the 1930s -- Conclusion -- A bibliography on the section -- Appendix: section murals and sculpture by state.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0877223483
9780877223481

Subject:

Federal Art Project.
Social realism.
Art, American 20th century.
Post office buildings United States.
Art and state United States.
Réalisme social (Art)
Art américain 20e siècle.
Bureaux de poste États-Unis.
Art Politique gouvernementale États-Unis.
social realism.
Art, American
Art and state
Cultural policy
Post office buildings
Kunst am Bau
Postgebäude
Geschichte (1934-1943)
United States Cultural policy.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Markowitz, Gerald E.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 60431
Call No.: ID:85-B7004
Status: Available