Art on the political front in America.

From: Art Journal | Date: March 22, 1993| Author: Marquardt, Virginia Hagelstein | Copyright information

The relationship between art and society was continuously debated in politically affiliated magazines in America from the early 1920s to the late 1930s. Among these magazines were the Liberator (Mar 1918-Oct 1924) and Art Front (Nov 1934-Nov/Dec 1937). The Liberator was pro-Soviet but was nonpolitical on matters of art. It introduced the concepts of proletarian art and propaganda art with most illustrations as drawings and cartoons of satirical origin. Art Front united artists in order to sec...

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