Shape of Content Paperback by Ben Shahn

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1992-01-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 144 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674805705
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

In his 1956–57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist—painter, writer, composer—to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.

About the Author

Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was an American painter, lithographer, and photographer. His work, commenting on major social issues such as racial discrimination, labor conditions, and the threat of atomic warfare, has been featured in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.