Gaye Bayri

Paradoxical Nature of American Art During the Great Depression: Realist Visions As the Antidote to Mythmaking Gaye Bayri

This book studies the ways in which antidotal reflections in American art provided a counterfriction to the affirmative stance of the government during the Great Depression. The consensus culture that adopted the common people rhetoric engendered by the nationwide crisis, the optimistic ideology of the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rising influence of the leftist politics constituted the social context in which artists constructed these two clashing perceptions, which constitutes the framework of this cultural analysis.