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139 Cards in this Set
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Vase, favrile glass 1893 Shift in art: innovative styles, techs, materials |
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William Merritt Chase In the Studio 1882 Surrounded by art: Japanese woodblocks, Chinese ceramics, Mexican retablos |
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John Singer Sargent Daughters of the Edward Darley Boit 1882 Defined by gender: stages of womanhood Chinese vases |
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John Singer Sargent Portrait of Madame X 1883 Challenging, offensive: powerful, seductive, confident |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Greg and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother 1871 Form over content |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Nocturne: Blue and Gold -- Old Battersea Bridge Oil on canvas 1872 |
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Ando Hiroshige Ohashi, Sudden Shower at Atake (One Hundred Views of Edo series) Woodblock print 1857 Inspired Whistler's Nocturne |
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Henry Hobson Richardson Trinity Church, Copley Square 1872 Romanesque |
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Henry Hobson Richardson Trinity Church, interior 1872 Romanesque |
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Louis Sullivan Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store 1899 Stylized foliation, transition to modernism |
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Louis Sullivan Wainwright Building St Louis, Missouri 1890 Interior steel frame, inventor of the skyscraper |
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Charles and Henry Greene Blacker House, Pasadena 1907 Draws on Fairbanks house, wood shingles |
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Charles and Henry Greene Blacker House, interior detail 1907 Arts and Crafts |
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Tiffany and Co. Bowl, American Indian style 1900 Exhibit all of North America |
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Tonalism |
Wanda Corn (1972) Muted palette of Impressionism: monochrome, limiting range of tones, soft focus |
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Albert Pinkman Ryder Toilers of the Sea 1883 Variety of strange materials to paint |
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John Haberle Changes of Time 1888 Illusionism: trompe l'oeil (paper currency common theme) |
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Trompe l'oeil |
"Fool the Eye", French |
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Winslow Homer Right and Left 1909 Shift in Homer's career Beauty vs. Violence |
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Ellen Day Hale Lady with a Fan (Self-Portrait) 1885 Challenges viewer, androgynous |
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William Paxton Tea Leaves 1909 Male gaze |
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Mary Cassatt In the Loge 1877 Woman painting woman, active stance |
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Thomas Eakins The Clinic of Dr. Samuel Gross (The Gross Clinic) 1875 Rejected as fine art, medical |
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World's Columbian Exposition Programme 1893 Objectifies world's culture as entertainment and education |
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Jacob Riis Five Cents a Spot, from How the Other Half Lives 1888 Urban realism |
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Eadward Muybridge "Sallie Gardner" running at a 1:40 gait, from The Horse in Motion 1878 Bet: all 4 feet in air? Assembly line |
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George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's 1909 Ashcan, primitive: experience as resource of art |
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George Bellows Pennsylvania Station Excavation 1909 Ashcan: raw, disordered city |
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John Sloan Night Window Etching 1910 Ashcan: act of looking, gaze |
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John Sloan Hairdresser's Window 1907 Gaze; signage |
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William Glackens Washington Square Drawing 1913 Gazes; melting pot |
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Lewis Hine Little Mother in the Steel District 1909 Raise awareness: Chile labor act |
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Arthur Wesley Dow Composition 1899 Japanese art |
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Alfred Stieglitz Equivalent 1930 Romantic: self expression, mood |
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Arthur Dove Nature Symbolized Pastel on paper 1911 Considered 1st abstract work in US |
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Georgia O'Keefe Evening Star 1917 Optical effects of light/shadow |
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Georgia O'Keefe Jack-in-the-Pulpit 1930 Metaphor prominent, ambiguity |
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Edward Steichen The Flatiron 1909 Pictorialist |
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Alfred Stieglitz The Hand of Man 1902 Pictorialism: interest in line |
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Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage 1907 Straight photo: not manipulated, sharp |
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Edward Weston Pepper, no. 30 1930 Straight photo, f64 group |
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Paul Strand Wall Street 1915 Abstracted, aesthetic organization |
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Georgia O'Keefe Specials Charcoal drawings sent to Stieglitz, "finally a woman on paper", put in gallery without her consent |
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Armory Show International Exhibition of Modern Art 1913 |
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 Cubism & stop action photo |
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Francis Picabia Ici, C'est Ici Stieglitz Foi et Amour 1915 Mechanomorphic |
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Mechanomorph |
Form of a mechanical object NY Dada drawings endowing humans with machine-like qualities |
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Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Dressed as Rose Selavy 1924 Gender play from vaudeville, burlesque, & film |
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Baroness Von Freytag & Morton Schamberg God 1918 Dada: refuse romantic idea of art, readymade |
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Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917 Dada, readymade |
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Alexander Calder Circus 1926 Violated piety of high art |
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Alexander Calder Mobile (Universe) 1934 Biomorphic forms, limitations of gravity |
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Gerald Murphy Safety Razor 1924 Early pop art, pop culture |
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Josephine Baker with her banana skirt 1927 Play on primitive fantasies |
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Romaine Brooks Lady Una Troubridge 1924 Gender roles |
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Charles Demuth My Egypt 1927 Industrial landscape |
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Marsden Hartley Christ Held by Half Naked Men 1940 Mysticism |
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William Zorach Floating Figure 1922 Primitivism: reaction against pop culture |
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Primitivism |
Reaction against pop culture, modern and mechanical |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Ward Willits House 1902 Prairie style: turning point in house design |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Ward Willits House 1902 Prairie style, Japanese print influence |
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Le Corbusier plate from Towards a New Architecture 1928 Straightforward design |
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William Van Alen Chrystler Building 1928 Quotes Gothic arch |
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Raymond Hood & John Mead Howells Chicago Tribune Building 1925 Flying buttresses |
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William Van Alen Chrysler Building (interior) 1928 Art deco: geometric patterning |
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Rene Chambellan Chanin Building (entrance gates) 1928 Art deco & jazz imagery |
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Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler Film still from Manhatta 1921 Cubist |
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Charles Sheeler Church Street El 1920 Enhanced abstract pattern, modern |
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Simon Rodia Watts Tower 1921-1954 Found objects imbedded, arch fantasy |
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Charles Sheeler Classic Landscape 1931 Precisionism: precise, static, abstracted modern style |
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Georgia O'Keefe The Shelton with Sunspots, New York 1926 Complicated precisionism |
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Charles Sheeler Crisscrossed Conveyers, River Rouge Plant 1927 Precisionism, glorification of machine |
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Stuart Davis Odol 1924 Flattened space, cubist; pop culture |
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Edward Steichen Douglass Lighters 1928 Straight photo |
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Charles Demuth I Saw the Figure Five in Gold 1928 Precisionism; modern: billboard like |
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Otto Messmer Felix the Cat 1923 Celluloid film animation |
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Archibald Motley Black Belt 1934 Stylized/rythmic: jazz |
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Edward Hopper Nighthawks 1942 Urban desolation/solitude |
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Edward Hopper New York Movie 1939 Mass media as inspiration |
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Joseph Cornell Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall) 1945 3D collages |
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Charles Sheeler Side of a White Barn 1916 Anti-industrial, usable past |
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Charles Sheeler Interior 1926 Early abstraction; Folk art |
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Magnus Fossum WPA artist copying 1770 coverlet "Boston Town Pattern" 1940 Works Progress Administration |
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John Steuart Curry Baptism in Kansas 1928 Regionalism: seizing modernism |
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Grant Wood American Gothic 1930 Regionalism; American stereotyping |
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Grant Wood Parson Weems' Fable 1939 Origin stories; glorify GW |
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Thomas Hart Barton A Social History of Missouri... 1936 Regionalism |
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Maria & Julian Martinez San Ildefonso Pueblo Black on black storage jar 1942 Non traditional, own creation |
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T Harmon Parkhurst Jose Dolores, Cordova, New Mexico 1935 Santos: carved saint |
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William H. Johnson Going to Church 1940 Modern primitive |
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Horace Pippin Mr. Prejudice 1943 "V" for victory, WWII |
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Ben Shahn The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti 1931 Social realism: reject modern abstraction, turn to figural |
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Diego Rivera Detroit Industry, North Wall 1932 Detroit: ethnic mixing |
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Philip Evergood American Tragedy 1937 Social realism |
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Jacob Lawrence Migration Series: The Migration Gained in Momentum 1940 Made through research, interviews Exhibited with captions |
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Aaron Douglas Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers 1934 Industrial North; jazz |
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Ben Shahn Jersey Homestead Mural 1937 New Jersey homestead for Jewish community |
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Michael Lantz Man Controlling Trade 1942 Archaism: return to Greko-Roman |
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Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother 1936 FSA: Farm Security Administration |
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Margaret Bourke-White & Erskine Caldwell Happy Hollow 1937 FSA propaganda |
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Walker Evans Houses and Billboards in Atlanta 1931 Interest in signage |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Falling water 1934 Organic, site-based; cantilevers (unbraced eves) |
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Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater (interior) 1943 All elements represented |
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Mimbres artist Bowl with mountain sheep (kill hole) 1200 ce |
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Theodor Gale Vespucci Discovering America 1600 |
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Freake-Gibbs painter John Freake 1671 |
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Fairbanks House Dedham, Massachusetts 1636 "Shingle style" |
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John Singleton Copley Portrait if Paul Revere 1768 |
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Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1770 |
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Paul Revere The Bloody Massacre 1770 |
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Gilbert Stuart George Washington 1796 |
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Charles Wilson Peale The Artist in His Museum 1823 |
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Washington Allston Elijah in the Desert 1818 |
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Lilly Martin Spencer Domestic Happiness 1849 |
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Shaker oval boxes Mid 19th c |
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Shaker dining room |
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Samuel Morse The Gallery of the Louvre 1833 |
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William Sidney Mount Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845 |
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George Caleb Bingham Fur Traders Descending the Missouri 1845 |
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Thomas Cole The Course of Empire: Destruction 1836 |
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Frederic Edwin Church Heart of the Andes 1859 |
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Timothy O'Sullivan A Harvest of Death 1863 |
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Winslow Homer Dressing for the Carnival 1878 |
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Henry Ossawa Tanner The Banjo Lesson 1893 |
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Winslow Homer The Morning Bell 1867 |
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Thomas Moran Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone 1872 |
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Thomas Eakins The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull) 1871 Scientific accuracy/interest, linear perspective |
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Thomas Eakins The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull) 1871 Scientific accuracy/interest, linear perspective |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Nocturne: Blue and Gold 1872 Inspired by Ohashi by Hiroshige, Japanese woodblock print |
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Louis Sullivan Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store 1899 New materials: plate glass, emphasize width |
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Muckrakers |
Digging up dirt in underbelly of culture (Riis, Five Cents) |
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Urban realism |
Lower class, real (Riis, Five Cents) |
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Ashcan artists |
Painted raw (poverty, dirtiness) urban life |
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Progressives |
Upper class, uninterested in lower class |
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Robert Henri |
"Art Spirit" Guiding Ashcan |
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Precisionism |
Reaction against expressionism Clean cut, rigid lines, exact, objective |
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Usable past |
1918, Van Wyck Brooks "On Creating a Usable Past" US must have own usable past |
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WPA & FAP |
Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project Paying artists to document American histories |
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Regionalism |
Shift in need of European art influence American artists as American artists |
