Note reposted from Bread and Roses Facebook page: This is a MUST VISIT for anyone interested in understanding the roles of art, music, literature, and poetry when the labor movement was such a vital part of society and culture and socialism was on the discussion agenda. The site has 75 magazine covers and so much more. Cover here of THE MASSES, May 1911. “The Man With the Ax, political cartoon by Art Young depicting a powerful man (socialism) wielding an ax (labor) against the capitalist’s plum tree, where a capitalist cowers with his money bags, and a basket of profit, interest and rent. Here’s a bit of the text you’ll find. “The socialist monthly covered women’s suffrage, birth control, workers rights, economic injustice, and free speech, and committed to printing cartoons and illustrations of the text by the best artists of the country…” “The extraordinary visuals—on the 75 covers presented here, and on the inner pages—leave a lasting legacy. That legacy originated, in part, in a small town on the Hudson River about 30 miles north of Manhattan, where many of the key creators intermittently lived and worked. Max Eastman, second editor and guiding light of the endeavor, together with Floyd Dell, Crystal Eastman, Boardman Robinson, John Reed, Louise Bryant, Mabel Dodge and others resided in the Mount Airy section of Croton-on-Hudson—a neighborhood known for most of the twentieth century as “Red Hill.” laborarts.org/exhibits/themasses/
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:18:29 +0000
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