Morris Dickstein's new cultural history of the Great Depression, called Dancing in the Dark, is one of those "everything but the kitchen sink" kind of books — except in this case the kitchen ...

The radical art of the Depression years. By working within the constraints of the WPA, artists like Philip Guston discovered new modes of representation and irony. The art of the 1930s occupies a ...

Two-hundred thousand visitors show up at Coit Tower in San Francisco every year, and most of them seem to ignore one the most fascinating and enjoyable art treasures in the country: the depression-era ...

These centers were opened under the Federal Art Project — a unit within the Works Progress Administration — which sought to help employ and support artists during the Great Depression.

Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration created the Public Works of Art Program — the first federal government program to support the ...

Depression Inside Depression is quite common ... such as this prison in Scotland (see here). As an art therapist working in prison during many holiday seasons, I would often find myself dressing ...

The New Deal government supported works of art in its political aim “to generate ... at that time, the Great Depression exacerbated long-active, deeply rooted tensions in American life relating ...

Still’s art was particularly influenced by the depression. “We see how he expressed himself in his more representational works of figures that were downtrodden or really struggling given the ...

Depression Inside Depression is quite common ... such as this prison in Scotland (see here). As an art therapist working in prison during many holiday seasons, I would often find myself dressing ...