New Deal Art (World of Art) newQ1-25 Awake for the Sunrise

Awake for the Sunrise

Twyla Tharp

XS/S: Length 21"

with lines on the back of each page for for additional musings and reflections

animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial

New Deal Art (World of Art) newQ1-25 Awake for the SunrisePaperback What role should the arts play in a democracy? At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding for the arts, the New Deal launched the careers of artists such as Philip Guston, Dorothea Lange, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. They belonged to the era's bold vision of cultural democracy: art by the people, for