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How should we understand the history and legacy of the New Deal art programs today? Marshaling new scholarship and original research, New Deal Art highlights the contributions of a diverse range of women, immigrant, working class, Indigenous, Black, Asian, Jewish, Latino, and LGBTQ+ artists. While previous studies have focused on the personalities and politics of government administrators, this book offers a "history from below" that stresses the role of artists as activists through collective efforts such as the Artists Union and the American Artists' Congress. It explores topics that traditionally fall outside the purview of art history: art as therapy in prisons and hospitals, children’s art, community art centers and art education, and the place of handicrafts and applied arts. Above all, New Deal Art explores the question of art and democracy: What if art was treated as a natural resource to which all citizens had an equal right? Paperback, 256 pages.
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