{"product_id":"ben-shahn-on-nonconformity-by-laura-katzman-beatriz-cordero-martin-et-al-new","title":"Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity \/ by Laura Katzman , Beatriz Cordero Martín, et al. (NEW)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinceton University Press, 2025. Softcover. New. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBen Shahn, On Nonconformity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898–1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America’s most prominent and prolific “social viewpoint” artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealing why Shahn remains so relevant today, the book examines his commitment to progressive political causes, from combating fascism to fighting for civil rights. Incorporating international perspectives, it investigates his World War II poster art, labor-related work, and engagement in postwar artistic debates. It brings new insights to Shahn’s social realist and documentary styles and their evolution into allegorical, lyrical, and often abstract idioms that embrace the philosophical and the spiritual. And it demonstrates the underappreciated complexity of Shahn’s layered visual language and how he experimented with modernist conceptual strategies—often involving photography—to create his paintings, murals, drawings, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShahn’s guiding credo—formulated in the Cold War—asserted that nonconformity was the precondition for all significant art and great social change. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBen Shahn, On Nonconformity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e illuminates why the artist’s work should be seen as a series of “nonconformities” driven by his steadfast dedication to social justice and humanistic values.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56646239912102,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/shahn.webp?v=1781284853","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/ben-shahn-on-nonconformity-by-laura-katzman-beatriz-cordero-martin-et-al-new","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}