^{Art and Ideology in the 1930s}

My Country is Better than Yours

STYLE  ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• historical climate: great depression, competing forms of government, socio-economic systems
  • Communism
  • Fascism
  • Democracy/capitalism
• art serves state and society (by free will or compelled to)
• Social Realsim (Soviet Russia): realism, truthful and historically concrete, figurative where historical reality as social class struggle
• Great German Art Exhibition, Exhibition of Degenerate Art (Germany)
  • art as propaganda tool
• Regionalism, Federal Art Project (US)
  • reflect time and place
• modern art (vs figurative arts) later rejected by governments (esp. Russian, Germ) because to individual or international

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Soviet Russia
Germany
Mexico
United States

Soviet Russia
Kasimir Malevich Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying 1915
Germany
Max Beckmann The Departure 1932-33
Mexico
Jose Clemente Orozco Epoch of American Civilization Dartmouth 1932-34
United States
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936
Ben Shahn The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti 1931-2
Jacob Lawrence No. 36 During the Truce of Toussait is Deceived... 1937-38
Edward Hopper Nighthawks 1942 (Regionalism)

VOCAB

Social Realism
Degenerate ('Entartete') Art
Federal Art Project

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