When Art Worked focuses on the consequences of the art and architecture created and its efficacy in enhancing the nation’s sense of itself during this debilitating time. The text is accompanied by approximately 450 rarely seen or published color and black-and-white illustrations and newly commissioned photographs of some of the incredible works produced.
A very timely account of of how an enlightened government can engage creative energies, the unemployed and the national infra-structure in harsh economic times . . .