Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

Robert W. Cherny (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252082306 (ISBN)

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Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.

Robert W. Cherny is professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. His publications include five books on American politics.

TitleContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Childhood in a Troubled Land, 1896–19142. "The Ineptitude of Command," 1914–19213. Wandering Russians, 1921–19254. "The Best Pupil in the Class," 1925–19295. "Under Rivera's Guidance," 1929–19316. "Perhaps the Most Gifted of the Local Muralists," 1931–19357. King of Parilia, 1935–19418. Art, Politics, and War, 1941–19459. DETCOM and COMSAB, 1945–195310. "An Unwanted Guest in America," 1953–196311. "I Am Home," 1963–1979Color IllustrationsAppendix: Arnautoff's Public MuralsNotesSelected SourcesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	26 color photographs, 29 black & white photographs, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-13	9780252082306 / 9780252082306
Zustand	Neuware