The Beginnings of “The American Wave” and the Depression
1968; College Art Association; Volume: 27; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1968.10793855
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Art History and Market Analysis
ResumoFor those of us who were born in the 1930's or later, the years of the Depression are recorded, not lived, history. Whatever were its devastations, we know them only from memoirs, novels, family stories and textbooks. Certainly we did not experience its impact on American art at first hand, nor have we been able to learn much about it at second hand. Unlike the generation of literary and political figures who lived through that decade, artists, art critics and art historians still gloss over the Depression years. Even in Samuel Green's recent textbook, American Art, there are no illustrations of works by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, three painters who held the attention, if not always the best wishes, of the American public for a decade and more.
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