America’s Best Idea: The WPA Posters and the Making of the National Parks
In 1935, the Federal Art Project put artists to work creating posters for the National Park Service. The result was a visual language so powerful it turned geography into mythology — and made Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon icons of American identity. This is the story of the WPA posters and the democratic idea behind them.
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