1st Edition
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context A New Deal for Design
By Cory Pillen
Copyright 2020
216 Pages
8 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
8 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
8 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book... Read more
Introduction
1. The World Wants New Knowledge and Skills
2. The Art of Reading
3. Posters, Preservation, and Ecological Blindness
4. Marching on To Health
5. One Third of a Nation - Ill-Housed
Conclusion
Biography
Cory Pillen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Design at Fort Lewis College.
