Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like his photography, Ben Shahn's paintings, particularly the series on Sacco and Vanzetti, reveal his concern with social injustice. He stressed the social function of his art rather than its aesthetic value. Photography he regarded purely as a means of documentation. He shot prisons, bales of hay, store fronts and the tasteless side shows at the circus. Never acknowledging their artistic possibilities, he used his photographs as material for his painting. Photographs helped him recall details about the way people looked...
...comes from Dedham, Mass., a town Sacco and Vanzetti and not the Gray's put on the maps. At Noble and Greenough he played hockey and baseball besides captaining what he recalls was "a very lousy soccer team...
...born immigrant, Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, and his proletarian vision was forged in the class-consciousness of the Depression. He employed elements of both Cubism and Surrealism in his own spare variant of social realism. In 1932 he won fame portraying the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Thereafter, his angry melancholy illuminated a memorable sequence of arriving immigrants, lonely lovers, World War II factory workers, Japanese fallout victims. His TIME magazine covers included Freud, Lenin, Martin Luther King. Despite advancing age, he continued to experiment and to donate posters to favorite causes, most recently...
Francis Russell, historian of Sacco and Vanzetti (Tragedy in Dedham), keeps his camera circling the 29th President of the United States and sometimes almost creates the illusion the body is twitching with life. Manfully he rates Harding as "an astute and able Ohio politician" and "above all, a kindly man." But he is up against one of the great political still lifes of modern times. The personal portrait that emerges reveals a man notable mainly for his mediocrity of mind and spirit-a rather lazy fellow for whom somebody else always had to open the door when opportunity knocked...
Check), money-grubbing ministers (The Profits of Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...