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Ben Shahn

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in Kaunas, Lithuania

September 12, 1898

Died

March 14, 1969

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,146 ratings · 121 reviews · 106 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shape of Content (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1956-1957) 4.21 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 1957 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alphabet of Creation 4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1988 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times by Ben Shahn (Photographer), Deborah Martin Kao, Jenna Webster 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecclesiastes 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ben Shahn: Paintings it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and Joy About Letters: About Letters and Lettering 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn, B&W Illustrations and One Color Plate (illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Biography Of A Painting really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haggadah for Passover it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?”
― Ben Shahn

tags: art, drawing

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“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it seems likely that time will erase his work.”
― Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content

tags: art, content, meaninglessness, public, reception, time

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“To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.”
― Ben Shahn

tags: abstract, art, artist

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