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Loading... Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Artby Irvin Ungar
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This beautiful book explores the life and works of Arthur Szyk, a Polish-Jewish-American artist of the first half of the 20th century. During the Second World War he was very widely known in the U.S. for his propaganda art; his caricatures of the Axis leaders were on many magazine covers, and he produced heartbreaking pleas for help for Europe's Jews. He also illustrated many books, including a gorgeous Hagganah. His style is unique, and I think his work is vastly underrated. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Ominous threats filled the years around World War II - Nazism, the escalating plight of European Jews, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and racism. Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), the great 20th-century 'activist in art, ' confronted the turbulent, hate-filled period with forceful artistic depictions caricaturing Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito as the evil architects of their regimes' destructive and inhumane policies. 'Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art' explores the activism of the Polish-born artist through 38 politically incisive works that underscore Szyk's role as a kind of 'one man army' fighting odious policies and protagonists and advocating civil and human rights. Exhibition: New York Historical Society, New York City, USA (15.09.2017-21.01.2018). No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)709.04The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts History, geographic treatment, biography By Period 20th CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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