Ben Shahn
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"Ben Shahn" was a Lithuanian-born United States/American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his Left-wing politics/left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Self Portrait among the Churchgoers, 1939.

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti.

His every line of writing was art. And yet such art was inseparable from its life content.