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Modernisms 1900-1980
Unit 8: Lesson 9
Social Realism- Strange Worlds, immigration in the early 20th century
- Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player
- Grant Wood, American Gothic
- Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land
- Revisiting the myth of George Washington and the cherry tree
- Vertis Hayes, The Lynchers
- Vertis Hayes, Juke Joint
- Cheap Thrills: Coney Island during the Great Depression
- Ben Shahn, Contemporary American Sculpture
- A mine disaster and those left behind: Ben Shahn's Miner's Wives
- Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Romare Bearden, Factory Workers
- Hopper, Nighthawks
- Hopper, Nighthawks
- Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice
- Josiah McElheny on Horace Pippin
- Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
- Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
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Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land
Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land, 1939, oil on canvas, 106 x 152.1 cm (Gilcrease Museum)
A conversation between Laura F. Fry, Senior Curator and Curator of Art, Gilcrease Museum and Steven Zucker.
A Seeing America video. Created by Smarthistory.
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why is there a scarecrow in the middle of nowhere(1 vote)
1) This is an artist's product. It is not a photograph.
2) The land around the scarecrow is a cultivated field, and the farmstead is in the background. This is not nowhere.
3) The artist uses the motif of a crucifixion, from the heart of Christianity, to make a statement about what is happening to the land.
I believe this is a well executed piece of political art, designed to convey a message about the land and its exploitation in contemporary times.(1 vote)