Alejandro Anreus
Alejandro Anreus is emeritus professor of art history and Latin American/Latinx studies at William Paterson University. His many books include A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art.
![Ben Shahn and "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"](/assets/599413ec/9780813529448-373419-150x200.jpg "Ben Shahn and "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"")
Ben Shahn and "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"
Between 1931 and 1932, painter Ben Shahn (1898–1969) created a series of twenty-three gouaches and temperas on the infamous trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in 1920 for the murder of a guard during a robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The two men were Italian immigrants as well as committed anarchists. Their radicalism and their ethnicity, far more than the ambiguous evidence in the case, became the basis for the prosecution against them. In 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed.
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba
Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions
Exploring the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba from 1940 to 1952, this book provides the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the nation’s only democratic period.