Art for everyone--the Federal Art Project's drive for middlebrow visual culture and identity

In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these re

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers,

This book examines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness

Both conservative and liberal Baby Boomers have romanticized the 1950s as an age of innocence--of pickup ball games and Howdy Doody, when mom stayed home and th