caa a22 4500 386309892 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006773 doi S0361233300006773 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006773 McCoy Garnett The Rise and Fall of the American Artists' Congress [Elektronische Daten] [Garnett McCoy] In the fall of 1929, just after the stock market crash but before its effects were widely felt, a group of radical artists and writers in New York established the John Reed Club, named after the already legendary journalist, poet, and revolutionary activist. The founders, some of them members of the Communist Party, some loosely associated with the party's cultural magazine New Masses, were committed but restless young men in search of a focus for their political energies. Soon after the club began, the artist members created an art school, organized exhibitions, and sponsored a lecture series and discussion groups with emphasis on the practice and theory of art and art history from a Marxist point of view. As the Depression deepened, with dire consequences to artists dependent on an art market in a state of collapse, the John Reed Club's approach attracted growing attention. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 325-340 0361-2333 13<325 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006773 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006773 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McCoy Garnett NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 325-340 0361-2333 13<325 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge