The Masses
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The Masses was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published monthly in the United States from 1911 until 1917, when federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription. It was succeeded by The Liberator and then later The New Masses. It published reportage, fiction, poetry and art by the leading radicals of the time such as Max Eastman, John Reed, Dorothy Day, and Floyd Dell.
Notable contributors
- Sherwood Anderson
- Cornelia Barns
- George Bellows
- Louise Bryant
- Arthur B. Davies
- Dorothy Day
- Floyd Dell
- Max Eastman
- Wanda Gag
- Jack London
- Amy Lowell
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
- Inez Milholland
- Robert Minor
- John Reed
- Boardman Robinson
- Carl Sandburg
- John French Sloan
- Upton Sinclair
- Louis Untermeyer
- Mary Heaton Vorse
- Art Young
See also
See also
- John French Sloan's satirical take on the Armory Show, captioned "A Slight Attack of Dimentia Brought on by Excessive Study of the Much Talked of Cubist Pictures in the International Exhibition in New York."
Although the magazine's birth coincided with the explosion of modernism, and its contributor Arthur B. Davies was an organizer of the Armory Show, The Masses published for the most part realist artwork that would later be classified in the Ashcan school. Many illustrations were appended with captions; a policy that irritated John French Sloan so much he left the magazine's staff.