Ben Shahn Books
The Shape of Content
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist--painter, writer, composer--to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience.
A Boy of Old Prague
- 98 pages
- 4 hours of reading
When a young peasant in sixteenth-century Prague is caught stealing, the lord of the manor sentences him to service in the Jewish ghetto, where he discovers unexpected kindness.
The Indignant Eye
The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso
- 470 pages
- 17 hours of reading
