Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art

by Robert W. Cherny

Book Overview

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082303
• ISBN13: 9780252082306
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"