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Labor's Canvas: American Working-class History and the Wpa Art of the 1930s
Laura Hapke
At an unprecedented and probably unique American moment, laboring people were indivisible from the art of the 1930s. By far the most recognizable New Deal art employed an endless frieze of white or racially ambiguous machine proletarians, from solo drillers to identical assembly line toilers.
270 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 1, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9781847184153 |
| Publishers | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Pages | 270 |
| Dimensions | 213 × 155 × 30 mm · 544 g |
| Language | English |
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