Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940-1990

by Jean Lawlor Cohen, Elizabeth Tebow, Sidney Lawrence

This final project of the Washington Arts Museum (WAM) looks back at a seminal half- century in the city's cultural history -from federal arts projects and the influx of newcomers in war and post-war times to heady acclaim for the Washington Color School and ambitious experimentation in the 1960s, from artists' mobilizing on behalf of social and political causes in the 1970s to diversity and exuberant optimism of the 1980s. Authors Jean Lawlor Cohen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615828264
• ISBN13: 9780615828268
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Washington Arts Museum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 8.5"