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Framing the Audience : Artand thePolitics ofCulture in the United States, 1929-1945, Hardback Book

Framing the Audience : Artand thePolitics ofCulture in the United States, 1929-1945 Hardback

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Framing the Audience explores the cultural politics of the Great Depression and World War II through the prism of art appreciation.

Isadora Helfgott interrogates the ideological and political motivations for breaking down barriers between fine art and popular culture.

She charts the impact that changes in art appreciation had on the broader political, social, cultural, and artistic landscape. Framing the Audience argues that efforts to expand the social basis of art became intertwined with-and helped shape-broader debates about national identity and the future of American political economy.

Helfgott chronicles artists' efforts toinfluence the conditions of artistic production and display.

She highlights the influence of the Federal Art Project, the impact of the Museum of Modern Art as an institutional home for modernism in America and as an organizer of traveling exhibitions, and the efforts by LIFE and Fortune magazines to integrate art education into their visual record of modern life.

In doing so, Helfgott makes critical observations about the changing relationship between art and the American public.

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