A conversation with Jennifer Young, PhD candidate in Hebrew & Judaic Studies, who will focus on American Jewish topics in the exhibition The Left Front, including the International Workers Order.
The Left Front highlights the work of American artists who took to their brushes amid the economic and social devastation brought on by the Great Depression. Joining forces in the John Reed Club and its successor, the American Artists’ Congress, a group of intellectuals and artists—among them Isabel Bishop, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, and Raphael Soyer—tackled themes ranging from class struggle, labor organizing, unemployment, civil and workers’ rights, immigration, socialist mysticism, and utopian communities to the Spanish Civil War.
New York City, NY; NYC