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the great depression
Title: the great depression
Category: History
Details: Words: 1549 | Pages: 6.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
the great depression
The Great Depression ushered America into an era of social consciousness and liberal reform. In the decade of the 1930's, under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, writers, artists, photographers, musicians, and performers were marshaled to create works which documented American life, sponsored by government programs such as the F.S.A. (Farm Security Administration) or the W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration). The Great Depression, in itself, had been a rude awakening from the escapism of …showed first 75 words of 1549 total…
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The tenant farmer’s series showed the industrial world with a crystal clear view exactly what was happening to these farmers. Everybody that saw these pictures was in a way changed or moved or awakened about the concurrent situation. This art and this series protruded pity, and promise to all of America, and Walker Evans will forever be remembered as the catalyst to the solution to the great depression.
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