Ben Shahn

This monograph on Shahn, the first in over twenty years, revisits the artist's work. Combining politics and aesthetics, Shahn's work, from the Depression era, through WWII and the post-war era on into the Sixties, documents ashift from social realism to a more personal iconography. The accompanying text weaves a complex portrait of the artist, incorporating many extracts from his writings. With selected bibliography. Color illus. 167p. Pap.