Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School / Rebecca Zurier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zurier, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

Ashcan school of art.

Art, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Art, American.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--In art.

New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

x, 407 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

Picturing the City takes a fresh look at the well-loved Ashcan School artists, a group of artists who sought to document everyday life in turn-of-the-century New York City, capturing it in realistic and unglamorized paintings and etchings of urban street scenes.

Contents:

Another look at the Ashcan School

Seeing New York: the turn-of-the-century culture of looking

A walk through the city on paper: the tradition of the mobile observer

Robert Henri and the real thing

The reporter's vision: Everett Shinn and the city as spectacle

The cartoonist's vision (Part 1): William Glackens and the legible city

The cartoonist's vision (Part 2): Bellows, Luks, and urban difference

The storyteller's vision: John Sloan and the limits of Visual knowledge

Conclusion: the legacy of the Ashcan School.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-387) and index.

ISBN:

0520220188

OCLC:

65978585

Publisher Number:

9780520220188

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