Ben Shahn’s The Shape Of Content is hands-down the best book about making consequential art and design and the pitfalls thereof. The book is comprised of essays for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1956-57 at Harvard and are so melodically written you’d swear you were listening to a live narration. “I have come to Harvard with some very serious doubts as to whether I ought to be here at all,” Shahn writes in the essay “Artists in Colleges.” “I am a painter; I am not a lectur