Stalinists and Artists in the U.S. "Red Decade"
Cantor, Helen http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1069/leftfront.html
Publisher: Workers Vanguard
Date Written: 29/05/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
New York University's recent art show, "The Left Front: Radical Art in the 'Red Decade,' 1929-1940," was a bittersweet experience. In the present period, with successful workers struggles few and far between, the pro-working-class images -- photos, movies of mass May Day parades in New York City, pictures of Great Depression misery, protests, strikes, the fight against Jim Crow segregation -- were, of course, moving. But there was something wrong with this picture. It wasn’t the individual artworks themselves, but the sentimental, prettifying view of and narrow focus on the U.S. Communist Party (CP).
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