(JAI-Long article that may be behind a paywall. If interested, write and I will forward the entire article.) Remembering when the government wasn’t afraid to let artists tell the truth about capitalism https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-07/column-remembering-when-the-government-wasnt-afraid-to-let-artists-tell-the-truth-about-capitalism
<https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-07/column-remembering-when-the-government-wasnt-afraid-to-let-artists-tell-the-truth-about-capitalism#> Business <https://www.latimes.com/business> [image: A painting depicting homelessness.] Mitchell Siporin’s “Homeless” (1939). (Bram and Sandra Dijkstra Collection) By Michael Hiltzik <https://www.latimes.com/people/michael-hiltzik> Business Columnist Sept. 7, 2023 3 AM PT Three men huddle around a lit fire in an oil drum. An entire community of the dispossessed goes about its day, here hanging laundry or carrying water in buckets, there mending a tattered shirt. A homeless family stands disconsolately before their wrecked home. “You could see this scene today,” Bram Dijkstra says of the family portrait. It’s not from today, however. These are paintings from the Depression 1930s, when federally funded arts programs freed artists to depict the underside of American capitalism as they saw it with their own eyes. These paintings and many other examples of what Dijkstra calls American Expressionism are currently on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art. Full at https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-07/column-remembering-when-the-government-wasnt-afraid-to-let-artists-tell-the-truth-about-capitalism [image: A painting of a cold miner and his family] Harry Sternberg’s “Coal Miner and Family” (1938). (Bram and Sandra Dijkstra Collection) -- JAI -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29845): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29845 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105428626/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
