Jonathan Emmesedi𧡠2/6
I appreciated the book providing not just a survey of the various federal agencies involved with art, but also an exploration of how these agencies' diverse priorities, institutional constraints, and convictions of their individual administrators could produce bodies of art more heterogeneous than that commonly imagined under the inaccurate label of "WPA art" .
For example, Harry Sternberg's 1939 "The Family, Industry, and Agriculture", a Section of Fine Arts sponsored US Post Office mural, might strike the viewer as typical New Deal Americana....
