New masses and the cultural movement in the third period. The early New masses ; Mike Gold and the proletarian aesthetic ; The future and the past : USSR versus USA ; New masses and the International Union of Revolutionary Writers ; The rise and fall of the John Reed clubs -- Defining revolutionary art : cultural criticism in the third period. Lessons of Soviet culture ; Mexican revolutionary art ; Proletarian artists versus 100 per cent Americanism : art criticism in New masses up to 1935 ; Art front -- Revolutionary art on display : the John Reed clubs and the Whitney Museum. John Reed Club art exhibitions ; John Reed Club artists outside the clubs -- Communist artists and the New Deal (1) : the federal art projects before the people's front. The CPUSA and the New Deal ; Federal art projects, 1933-1935 ; The ideology of federal art ; The Artists' Union ; The union critique ; Communists in the Public Works of Art Project -- Cultural criticism from the people's front to the democratic front. New masses, 1936-1940 ; Art criticism in New masses, 1936-1940 ; The Marxist Critics Group ; Art front's last year ; The Daily worker's art column -- Social art on display : organisations and exhibitions. The American Artists' Congress ; Exhibitions of the American Artists' Congress ; Artists' Union exhibitions and other initiatives ; The American Artists School ; The American Group, Inc. ; The ACA Gallery ; Social art at the Whitney Museum -- Communist artists and the New Deal (2) : from the people's front to the democratic front. The Federal Art Project and the struggle over WPA ; The CPUSA and the Federal Art Project ; The ideology of the Federal Art Project ; The Treasury Section of Fine Arts ; The WPA Federal Art Project -- Cultural Organising after 1939 : the Artists League of America, Artists Equity and other initiatives. The Artists League of America ; The Victory Workshop and the Graphic Workshop ; The arts, sciences and professions ; The Waldorf Conference ; Artists Equity Association ; The defence of the Rincon Post Office murals ; The ACA Gallery -- Cultural criticism between Hollywood and Zhdanovism. The Maltz affair ; Art criticism in the Daily worker ; New masses and Masses & mainstream ; The end of democratic front aesthetics and the emergence of Zhdanovism ; The crisis of 1956-1957 and its aftermath -- Social art in the Cold War. Changing personnel ; The new symbolism ; Socialist humanism and the portrait ; Jack Levine's comédie humaine ; African American people's art : Charles White and Jacob Lawrence ; Modernism and social narrative.