[The Masses, December 1915 - cover illustration showing a dancer] / Ilonka Karasz. – Vintage Wall Art
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of [The Masses, December 1915 - cover illustration showing a dancer] / Ilonka Karasz.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[The Masses, December 1915 - cover illustration showing a dancer] / Ilonka Karasz.
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Ilonka Karasz's color cover for the December 1915 issue of *The Masses* shows a single dancer, a subject that sets it apart from the political cartoons and social commentary that usually filled the radical New York monthly. Karasz, a Hungarian-born artist, brought a flat, decorative modernism to the magazine, and her cover stands out among its illustrated pages of the period. Dance was a popular subject in the 1910s, when Isadora Duncan's free movement and the ballroom craze led by Vernon and Irene Castle drew wide public attention.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : offset lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Magazine covers 1910-1920.Offset photomechanical prints Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Masses, vol. VIII, no. 2 (issue no. 54), 1915 December, cover. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4180-L. Unprocessed in D 022, no. 3206 |
| Subjects | Dancers--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,667 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220334 |
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