TY - BOOK AU - Shahn, B TI - The Shape of Content SN - 9780674805705 U1 - VSCL PY - 1992/// CY - USA PB - Harvard University Press KW - Art history KW - Art theory KW - Artist monograph KW - Graphic design KW - Painting N1 - In his 1956-57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the Russian-born American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist-painter, writer, composer-to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience ER -