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  title info:
    title: WPA posters in an aesthetic, social, and political context
    sub title: a New Deal for design
  name:
    name part: Pillen, Cory
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 197 pages, [8] pages of color illustrations : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters' diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America. This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history and American studies.
  note: Cory Pillen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-193) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Posters, American
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Social problems
    topic: Posters
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Works Progress Administration.
  subject:
    topic: New Deal, 1933-1939
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1933-1945
  classification: NC1849.S54 P55 2020
  classification: 741.6/7409730904
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    title info:
      title: Routledge research in art and politics
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191216
    record change date: 20250308175633.7
    record identifier: in00004155400