Shall the artist survive? – Vintage Photo Print
(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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A window into the past: Shall the artist survive?, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Asking in its title whether "the artist" can survive, this 1936 silkscreen poster advertises a public forum on a question that pressed hard on American creative workers during the Depression. Its subject, Holger Cahill (1887-1960), was a Danish-born curator and folklorist who directed the Federal Art Project, and the event was sponsored by the Federal Music Project, so the poster links several New Deal arts programs. Silkscreen was a practical choice for the Works Progress Administration, which used inexpensive color prints to promote concerts, lectures and exhibitions. The poster is a useful record of how the arts projects debated their own purpose in public.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Mérimée Prosper 1803-1870. Carmen.Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Cahill Holger 1887-1960--Public appearances. Forums (Discussion & debate)--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 985 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 289_Shall_the_artist_surviv_1936 |
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