Picturing the City : Urban Vision and the Ashcan School

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zurier, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ashcan school of art.

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

Ashcan school of art--20th century--New York (State)--New York.

Art, American.

New York (N.Y.).

Local Subjects:

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

Ashcan school of art.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. Offering fresh insights into the development of modern cities and modern art in America, Rebecca Zurier considers what it meant to live in a city where strangers habitually watched each other and public life seemed to consist of continual display, as new classes of immigrants and working women claimed their places in the metropolis. Through her study of six artists-George Bellows, William Glac

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE THE SETTING; 1. Another Look at the Ashcan School; 2. Seeing New York: The Turn-of-the-Century Culture of Looking; 3. A Walk through the City on Paper: The Tradition of the Mobile Observer; PART TWO THE ARTISTS; 4. Robert Henri and the Real Thing; 5. The Reporter's Vision: Everett Shinn and the City as Spectacle; 6. The Cartoonist's Vision (Part 1): William Glackens and the Legible City; 7. The Cartoonist's Vision (Part 2): Bellows, Luks, and Urban Diaerence; PART THREE JOHN SLOAN'S URBAN VISION

8. The Storyteller's Vision: John Sloan and the Limits of Visual KnowledgeConclusion: The Legacy of the Ashcan School; Notes; Selected Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-282-35644-5

9786612356445

0-520-92355-3

OCLC:

609850157