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Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zurier, Rebecca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Ashcan school of art.
Art, American > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > In art.
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Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The setting: 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
  • The artists
  • 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
  • John Sloan's urban vision
  • The storyteller's vision: John Sloan and the limits of Visual knowledge
  • Conclusion: the legacy of the Ashcan School.