Belle Baranceanu
Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance
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2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1212-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1212-0 (ISBN)
In this first biography of artist Belle Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the riveting story of a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and one of California's foremost Modern artists.
In this first biography of artist Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu, Jennifer Hernandez tells the extraordinary story of a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and a prominent modern California Modern artist. Baranceanu's art and worldview were influenced by her Jewish Romanian immigrant family background and hardscrabble childhood in the Great Plains. Her meteoric rise in the art world began in Chicago in the 1920s but the onset of the Great Depression nearly ended her career. However, destitution qualified Baranceanu for work relief, and she was soon hired to produce art for all the New Deal federal government art projects beginning in 1934. Drawing from previously unpublished letters and archival records, Hernandez skillfully weaves Baranceanu's resilient story into the larger history of the Depression and New Deal in Chicago and San Diego and highlights the success of the government's work relief programs. For Baranceanu and others fortunate enough to work for the New Deal art projects, the Depression turned out to be a golden age in American art history with a level of government patronage that has been unmatched ever since.
In this first biography of artist Belle Goldschlager Baranceanu, Jennifer Hernandez tells the extraordinary story of a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and a prominent modern California Modern artist. Baranceanu's art and worldview were influenced by her Jewish Romanian immigrant family background and hardscrabble childhood in the Great Plains. Her meteoric rise in the art world began in Chicago in the 1920s but the onset of the Great Depression nearly ended her career. However, destitution qualified Baranceanu for work relief, and she was soon hired to produce art for all the New Deal federal government art projects beginning in 1934. Drawing from previously unpublished letters and archival records, Hernandez skillfully weaves Baranceanu's resilient story into the larger history of the Depression and New Deal in Chicago and San Diego and highlights the success of the government's work relief programs. For Baranceanu and others fortunate enough to work for the New Deal art projects, the Depression turned out to be a golden age in American art history with a level of government patronage that has been unmatched ever since.
Jennifer Hernandez teaches at San Diego Mesa College.
Chapter 1: The First American
Chapter 2: Childhood and Homesteading in North Dakota, 1904–1920
Chapter 3: Becoming an Artist, 1920–1926
Chapter 4: The Los Angeles Period, 1927–1929
Chapter 5: Grief and Depression, Chicago, 1929–1932
Chapter 6: Relief
Chapter 7: The Federal Government becomes a Patron of the Arts, 1933–1934
Chapter 8: The Emergency Work Relief Program in San Diego, 1934–1935
Chapter 9: A World’s Fair and a Growing Art Community
Chapter 10: A Second New Deal for the Arts
Chapter 11: Decorating the Post Office
Chapter 12: The Federal Art Project
Chapter 13: The End of an Era
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-1212-9 / 1793612129 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-1212-0 / 9781793612120 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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