Modern Art in the Americas

Question 1

FSA (Farm Securities Administration)

Question 2

Documentary Photography

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Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit.

Question 3

New Negro Movement (Harlem Renaissance)

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a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.

Question 4

Social Realism

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The realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment

Question 5

Answer 5

Dorothea Lange • Migrant Mother (1936)

Question 6

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Diego Rivera • The Great City of Tenochtitlan (1945)