Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer’s Wife, 1936, printed c. 1962 Walker Evans
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PHOTOGRAPHY + FOLK ART: Looking for America in the 1930s
21/09/2019 - 19/01/2020
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
60603 Chicago
www.artic.edu
In the 1930s, as the United States was struggling through the Great Depression, a rising interest in early American vernacular arts—collectively referred to as folk art—converged with major documentary photographic projects. As artists, curators, collectors, and government administrators sought to define American culture as distinct from Europe, they identified in these two burgeoning fields a national culture they considered egalitarian, unpretentious, and self-made.
21/09/2019 - 19/01/2020
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
60603 Chicago
www.artic.edu
In the 1930s, as the United States was struggling through the Great Depression, a rising interest in early American vernacular arts—collectively referred to as folk art—converged with major documentary photographic projects. As artists, curators, collectors, and government administrators sought to define American culture as distinct from Europe, they identified in these two burgeoning fields a national culture they considered egalitarian, unpretentious, and self-made.