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Please visit the following links to learn more:Shahn's sketches for Rikers Island;Correctional History discussion of Shahn; Lucienne Bloch, Cycle of a Woman's Life: Childhood: Shahn's photo of an incarcerated painter at Blackwell's Island; Larry Cook, The Visiting Room and Urban Landscapes;Groundswell murals at Rikers; Handwritten survey responses in the Shahn Papers at the Archives of American Art.SHOW NOTES:2:00 Ben Shahn's and Lou Block's proposed Rikers Island Penitentiary murals for the New Deal 4:45 West wall's mural representing prison reform6:05 East wall's mural of prisons in need of reform8:20 New York's Municipal Art Commission rejects murals as psychologically unfit for prisoners and as anti-social propaganda 9:00 1935 survey of Blackwell Island prisoners about murals11:35 one incarcerated man likened Shahn's murals to Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center mural12:40 concerns about making incarcerated life a spectacle14:10 responses by Ben Shahn and Lou Block to survey17:20 utility of survey for art historians19:10 survey archive21:30 Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene by Diana Linden22:10 Ben Shahn's New York by Harvard Art Musuems22:50 Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by artists and administrators of the WPA Project by Francis O'Connor includes material from Lucienne Bloch23:10 Bloch's “Cycle of a Woman's Life” accepted for WPA Project in 193523:50 Bloch's primary sources quote from letters by incarcerated females 29:30 Harold Lehman's Man's Daily Bread erected at Rikers and later removed35:20 Faith Ringgold's 1971 For the Women's House37:00 Reception to Ringgold's For the Women's House by male incarcerated population 38:45 2012 Prison Landscapes by Alyse Emdur42:10 Antoine Ealy's opinion of prison landscapes43:20 utility of murals in correctional institutions44:15 Nicole Fleetwood's book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration45:00 Shahn's photograph of incarcerated man painting portrait at Blackwell's Island 47:30 Utility of art as a direct and didactic tool 51:00 how a focus on art in correction facilities aids in facilitating justice 56:00 Marking Time includes incarcerated and non-incarcerated artists56:20 Artist Larry Cook 57:30 Groundswell NYC58:20 How Nowocki defines justice 59:20 Mariame Kaba's view of justice in terms of accountability as compared with punishmentTo view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast, please call 1.929.260.4942 or email Stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. © Stephanie Drawdy [2022]
In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Diana L. Linden, an art historian of American art based in Claremont, California, explores the colorful–and political–murals of the leftist artist Ben Shahn during the New Deal. Born in Lithuania and raised in New York, Shahn distinguished himself in the 1930s as an artist with a keen eye for expressing the social and political events of his day and the history of Jews in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Diana L. Linden, an art historian of American art based in Claremont, California, explores the colorful–and political–murals of the leftist artist Ben Shahn during the New Deal. Born in Lithuania and raised in New York, Shahn distinguished himself in the 1930s as an artist with a keen eye for expressing the social and political events of his day and the history of Jews in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Diana L. Linden, an art historian of American art based in Claremont, California, explores the colorful–and political–murals of the leftist artist Ben Shahn during the New Deal. Born in Lithuania and raised in... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Diana L. Linden, an art historian of American art based in Claremont, California, explores the colorful–and political–murals of the leftist artist Ben Shahn during the New Deal. Born in Lithuania and raised in New York, Shahn distinguished himself in the 1930s as an artist with a keen eye for expressing the social and political events of his day and the history of Jews in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Diana L. Linden, an art historian of American art based in Claremont, California, explores the colorful–and political–murals of the leftist artist Ben Shahn during the New Deal. Born in Lithuania and raised in New York, Shahn distinguished himself in the 1930s as an artist with a keen eye for expressing the social and political events of his day and the history of Jews in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices