“The Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade’” Exhibition
Grey Art Gallery
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The Left Front highlights work produced by American artists amid the economic and social devastation of the Great Depression. Joining forces in the John Reed Club and its successor, the American Artists’ Congress, a group of intellectuals and artists— among them Isabel Bishop, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, and Raphael Soyer— tackled themes ranging from class struggle, civil and workers’ rights, immigration, socialist mysticism, and utopian communities to the Spanish Civil War. Presenting prints, posters, paintings, and books—including selections from NYU’s Tamiment Library—the exhibition queries what revolutionary art was then, and what it could be today.
Media
Schedule
from January 13, 2015 to April 04, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-12 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Isabel Bishop, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer et al.