Beauty in the City, livre ebook
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169
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English
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Ebooks
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2017
Écrit par
Robert A. Slayton
Publié par
State University of New York Press
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169
pages
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English
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Ebooks
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2017
Description
Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categorySilver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History category
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art—expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it—they created one of the great American art forms.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. And Like That . . . They’re Gone
2. Top and Bottom
3. Vision from an Ashcan
4. The Ashcan Artists
5. The Art Scene
6. Moving On
7. The City as Art
8. People of the City
9. Life in the Ashcan City
10. The Ashcan School and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art—expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it—they created one of the great American art forms.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. And Like That . . . They’re Gone
2. Top and Bottom
3. Vision from an Ashcan
4. The Ashcan Artists
5. The Art Scene
6. Moving On
7. The City as Art
8. People of the City
9. Life in the Ashcan City
10. The Ashcan School and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Publié par
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Date de parution
21 juin 2017
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EAN13
9781438466439
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Langue
English
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Poids de l'ouvrage
2 Mo
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