新政艺术：从壁画看爱国、宣传与美

To forge a new social contract is one thing. To explain it to people is another. The bureaucrats of the New Deal understood that very well. They also knew that art and architecture could be powerful spreaders of political ideas. As it brought America out of the Depression, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration built or funded courthouses, post offices, town halls, gyms, pools, auditoriums, and much more—tens of thousands of public buildings and facilities—and its arts programs employed as many as 10,000 artists to decorate them. The Art of the (New) Deal What the murals of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building can teach us about patriotism, propaganda, and beauty By Judith Shulevitz The Wilbur J. …