(Mobile library) Robert Koehler’s The Strike: The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
·•●- James M. Dennis ·•●-
| #1665186 in Books | 2011-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.50 x9.50l,1.35 | File Name: 0299251349 | 176 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Strike - "Biography of a Painting" and of Robert Koehler, its creator|By Brandy D. Larson|by Brandy Larson
James Dennis's book, The Strike, is unique in its inception as a fascinating "biography of a painting,"as well as of Robert Koehler, the German-American artist who painted the unprecedented canvas of industrial workers confronting a frowning factory owner 1||
|“A fascinating study of an artist and the fate of his most renowned painting. . . . Clear and readable . . . it takes on the character of a cultural mystery.”—Lewis Erenberg, author of The Greatest Fight of Our Generation
Every work of art has a story behind it. In 1886 the German American artist Robert Koehler painted a dramatic wide-angle depiction of an imagined confrontation between factory workers and their employer. He called this oil painting The Strike. It has had a long and tumultuous international history as a symbol of class struggle and the cause of workers’ rights. First exhibited just days before the tragic Chicago Haymarket riot, The Strike beca...
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