Author: Braun, Emily and Thomas Branchick
Title: Thomas Hart Benton: The America Today Murals
Description: New York, The Equitable Life Assurances Society of the United States, 1985. Softcover. Colorfully-illustrated wraps with white lettering; French flaps; 83 pp. 3 gatefolds; with 9 color plates and 27 bw studies and preparatory drawings, with an additional 40 bw and color figures. The catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name. The murals were commissioned in the late 1920s for the New School for Social Research in New York. Extensive essays discuss the murals and the liberalism of the times as well as the murals' restoration. Contents as follows: Preface / John B. Carter -- Foreward / Thomas Krens -- Introduction / Michael L. Smith -- Thomas Hart Benton & Progressive Liberalism: An Interpretation of the New School Murals / Emily Braun -- Color Plates The America Today Murals / Emily Braun -- The Restoration of America Today / Thomas Branchick & Emily Braun. VG- .

Keywords: American Artists ; Benton, Thomas Hart ; ;


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