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Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York
caa.reviews 01 Apr, 2021Readers of Jody Patterson鈥檚 excellent Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York will reconsider set narratives of midcentury modernism in the United States.
鈥淲hen people hear the words 鈥榃PA murals,鈥� they envision the large and heroic figures they may have seen in post offices or other public buildings across America,鈥� Stephanie Wiles, the director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, told Hyperallergic....