Paul Von Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1118152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Von Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Blum |
| SIGNATURE | VON BLUM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Paul Von Blum is a faculty member in the UCLA Center for African American Studies. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Advancing Environmental Justice By Expanding The Literary Canon
Review of Petr Kopecký and Jan Beneš, eds. Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2025)
Saar, Betye
Envisioning Freedom
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life, by Cara Caddoo. Cambridge & London, Harvard University Press, 2014. 294 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Both Film Studies and African American Studies are relatively new interdisciplinary fields, and scholarly advances are especially valuable as these areas of inquiry consolidate their stature within the academy and elsewhere. Cara Caddoo's new book on cinema and the building of modern Bla…
White, Charles
Catlett, Elizabeth
Saar family
Jones, Lois
Resistance, Memory, and Hope
From October 7, 2004 through May 28, 2005, thousands of Southern California residents and visitors viewed a large-scale exhibition at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles that simultaneously afforded a rare opportunity to explore recent South African history, to reflect on the power of documentary photography, and to discover and celebrate the life of acclaimed South African photojournalist and artist Peter Magubane. Entitled “De…
Books
Satire
Comic-strip art
Other Voices, Other Visions
A Gathering Place
The critical vision
A neglected tradition of artistic expression exists in the United States. It combines technical excellence with a critical vision of society. From before the Revolutionary War to the present, artists working in this tradition have created a powerful monument to political dissent and moral conscience. These men and women, sharing a vision of the harsh realities of life, have used their talents to illuminate the defects of social and political exis…
New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles
The author traces the history of political art in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on major new developments in artistic content, form and audience. He describes how contemporary political artists have broadly expanded traditional European themes in visual social commentary, especially in the domains of racism, sexism, environmental degradation and economic inequality. He also discusses how twentieth-century political artists in Nort…
The Art of Social Conscience
In THE ART OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE, Paul Von Blum discusses and illustrates the work of artists who share this attitude of engagement, from Goya’s eloquent protest against the horrors of war and Daumier’s passionate satire on the conditions of humankind to Rouault’s moral outrage based on religious convictions and Munch’s expressions of anguish and despair. (...) Many of the artists discussed here, writes Peter Selz, a purposeful concept in their re…
Resistance, Memory, and Hope
From October 7, 2004 through May 28, 2005, thousands of Southern California residents and visitors viewed a large-scale exhibition at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles that simultaneously afforded a rare opportunity to explore recent South African history, to reflect on the power of documentary photography, and to discover and celebrate the life of acclaimed South African photojournalist and artist Peter Magubane. Entitled “De…
The Art of Social Conscience
In THE ART OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE, Paul Von Blum discusses and illustrates the work of artists who share this attitude of engagement, from Goya’s eloquent protest against the horrors of war and Daumier’s passionate satire on the conditions of humankind to Rouault’s moral outrage based on religious convictions and Munch’s expressions of anguish and despair. (...) Many of the artists discussed here, writes Peter Selz, a purposeful concept in their re…
The critical vision
A neglected tradition of artistic expression exists in the United States. It combines technical excellence with a critical vision of society. From before the Revolutionary War to the present, artists working in this tradition have created a powerful monument to political dissent and moral conscience. These men and women, sharing a vision of the harsh realities of life, have used their talents to illuminate the defects of social and political exis…
New Visions, New Viewers, New Vehicles
The author traces the history of political art in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on major new developments in artistic content, form and audience. He describes how contemporary political artists have broadly expanded traditional European themes in visual social commentary, especially in the domains of racism, sexism, environmental degradation and economic inequality. He also discusses how twentieth-century political artists in Nort…
A Gathering Place
Other Voices, Other Visions
Satire
Comic-strip art
Resistance, Memory, and Hope
From October 7, 2004 through May 28, 2005, thousands of Southern California residents and visitors viewed a large-scale exhibition at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles that simultaneously afforded a rare opportunity to explore recent South African history, to reflect on the power of documentary photography, and to discover and celebrate the life of acclaimed South African photojournalist and artist Peter Magubane. Entitled “De…
Books
Catlett, Elizabeth
Saar family
Jones, Lois
White, Charles
Envisioning Freedom
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life, by Cara Caddoo. Cambridge & London, Harvard University Press, 2014. 294 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). Both Film Studies and African American Studies are relatively new interdisciplinary fields, and scholarly advances are especially valuable as these areas of inquiry consolidate their stature within the academy and elsewhere. Cara Caddoo's new book on cinema and the building of modern Bla…
Saar, Betye
Advancing Environmental Justice By Expanding The Literary Canon
Review of Petr Kopecký and Jan Beneš, eds. Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2025)
Art (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)