Paintings; Allusions; Anti-Americanism; Politics & government; Political issues; Capitalism; Imperialism; Wealth; Corruption; Poverty; Emigration & immigration; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Domestic life; Child labor;...
"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....
A line of men standing on a dirt road next to a split rail fence. The man at the front of the line, with face obscured, has a board on his shoulder with a coffin tied to it.
Display of caskets in a room inside the John W. Manning & Sons funeral home. The caskets are in rows along the walls. Address: 612-614 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky.
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
