{"id":13450,"date":"2012-08-20T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:31:40","slug":"featured-ben-shahn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-ben-shahn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: BEN SHAHN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Ben Shahn, the Lithuanian-born American painter, photographer, graphic artist is best known for his works of social realism, and his interest and involvement in politics. <\/span>His vision included themes on modern urban life, labor, immigration and injustice, always with compassionate tone. He identified himself as a communicative artist, who challenged the esoteric pretensions of art, which he believed disconnect artists\u2019 and their work from the public. As an alternative, he proposed an intimate and mutually beneficial relationship between artist and audience.<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110332.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatR size-thumbnail wp-image-13454\" title=\"Signed By Ben Shahn\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110332-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Limited Edition, #7 of 150 printed copies. Hard bound in full parchment covered boards by Russell-Rutter, housed in paper-covered slipcase with printed label. Printed on Arches paper. Lithograph signed by Ben Shahn, laid-in as called for. Illustrated throughout with many drawings by Ben Shahn, many of which are full page, printed by offset lithography in ochre. A beautiful production produced at the Thistle Press. The work deals with the mind and body in myth and experience in vastly differing cultures. The first part is devoted to the heritage of the Western World, particularly Hebraic and Hellenistic traditions; the second ranges pre-Columbian America. Some minor wear to publishers slipcase, otherwise fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 39999<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13451\" title=\"The Sorrows Of Priapus\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110325-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110325-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110325-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1110325.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Sorrows Of Priapus<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Shahn, Ben &amp; Dahlberg, Edward<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>New Directions<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>1957<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound <strong><br \/>\nBook Condition:<\/strong> Very Good <strong><br \/>\nSigned:<\/strong> Signed by both Ben Shahn &amp; Edward Dahlberg<strong><br \/>\nEdition:<\/strong> First Edition, # 7 in a limited edition of 150<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shahn, the Lithuanian-born American painter, photographer, graphic artist is best known for his works of social realism, and his interest and involvement in politics. His vision included themes on modern urban life, labor, immigration and injustice, always with compassionate tone. He identified himself as a communicative artist, who challenged the esoteric pretensions of art, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14977,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions\/14977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}