20th century american art
20th century american art history
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american journalism
antifascism
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holger cahill
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politics of labor
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520291430
- Weight: 1179g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Active from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism-and it prioritized the intelligent and critical deployment of both pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention into the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. Each of its five chapters explores one dimension of the tabloid's complex journalistic activation of modernism's potential, showing how PM inserted into daily print journalism the most innovative critical thinking in the fields of painting, illustration, cartooning, and the lens-based arts. Artist as Reporter promises to revise our own understanding of midcentury American modernism and the nature of its relationship to the wider media and public culture.
Jason E. Hill is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. He is the coeditor of Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of News.
