How Artists Survived The (First) Great Depression by Artsjournal2

Public funding was the way. However: "Back then there was even less agreement on a public role for creatives. The Writers' Project assigned them a public role in producing travel guidebooks, histories, and life stories of everyday Americans, including thousands of narratives of formerly enslaved people. New Deal artists created landscapes, murals, street scenes, portraits, […]

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