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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2009
The current nostalgic interest in the 1920s and '30s has brought about more than the revival of period fashion and interior decoration in America. For anyone concerned with die visual arts it has illuminated the most exciting and prolific decade diat country has ever seen. During die Depression the official approach to art and die artist was radically different from anything before or since, and probably from anything in the Western world. That this should have come about is in itself amazing, die more so as it was done through Congressional legislation, supported by the President.
1 The author is an American artist at present working in England. The article is in part based on conversations she has with artists who lived through the period and the experiences she describes.
2 The author is indebted to the following sources from which references have been taken: Miller, William, A New History of the United States (New York, Dell, 1966)Google Scholar; O'Connor, F. V., Federal Support for the Visual Arts: the New Deal and Now (Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society, 1969)Google Scholar; McCoy, Garnett, ‘Poverty, politics and artists’ in The Artist in America (New York, Norton, 1967)Google Scholar. Further information will be found in: Rose, Barbara, American Art Since 1900 (London, Thames & Hudson, 1967)Google Scholar; The New Deal Art Projects: an anthology of memoirs, ed. O'Connor, F. V. (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972).Google Scholar