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Yet the imagery produced by Left-wing artists, such as Ben Shahn's Lidice Poster - showing the hooded victim of a Nazi atrocity - proved almost meaningless to the American public.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"preserves the living memory" and referred to his style as "a strong graphic approach to painting, coupled with a disciplined but expressionistic technique that allies him with artists such as Ben Shahn or earlier, Georges Rouault."
unknown title 2009
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The Surrealist Man Ray born Emmanuel Radnitzky was staying with the Grinsteins, and although by this time he had become bitter, they got him to do some prints; they also got some from social-activist artist Ben Shahn.
Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011
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I blame Lorne Bair, Tom Congalton and Dan Gregory, of Lorne Bair Rare Books and Between the Covers, respectively, who recently acquired the library of the great art director and graphic artist, Ben Shahn, within which was a cache of Perelman firsts inscribed to Shahn by his good friend.
Stephen J. Gertz: S.J. Perelman, Humorist, Cardiology a Specialty Stephen J. Gertz 2011
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The Surrealist Man Ray born Emmanuel Radnitzky was staying with the Grinsteins, and although by this time he had become bitter, they got him to do some prints; they also got some from social-activist artist Ben Shahn.
Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011
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Sekaer was friends with Abbott, Walker Evans and Ben Shahn, and their influence is easily detected.
Gift Guide: Photography Books William Meyers 2011
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The Surrealist Man Ray born Emmanuel Radnitzky was staying with the Grinsteins, and although by this time he had become bitter, they got him to do some prints; they also got some from social-activist artist Ben Shahn.
Tom Teicholz: How LA Grew Its Art Tom Teicholz 2011
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The series, which originally appeared alongside John Bartlow Martin's August 1948 article, "The Hickman story," in Harper's Magazine is currently on exhibit at University of Chicago's Smart Museum in "'People Wasn't Made to Burn': Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story."
Menachem Wecker: Exhibit Finds Holocaust Reference in Art of 1947 Chicago Homicide Case 2010
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After her return to the United States in 1932, Nevelson joined a circle of well-known artists that included Diego Rivera and Ben Shahn.
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Mr. PINKWATER: And here is an illustration by the magnificent Ben Shahn, of a kid with a great expression on his face saying, quas.
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