New York, culture capital of the world, 1940-1965 / edited by Leonard Wallock ; essays by Dore Ashton, Alexander Bloom, Lynn Garafola, Richard Gilman, Carol Herselle Krinsky, John Rockwell, William Sharpe, Leonard Wallock.

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Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1988.

Description:

292 pages : illustrations (80 color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Spine title: New York, 1940-1965.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
New York City : capital of the twentieth century. The world of tomorrow ; A global capital ; A city transformed ; The urban crisis / Leonard Wallock -- Living on the edge : New York in literature. Cities within the city ; Between two cities ; Urban eros : sex and violence ; Over the edge and underground ; Streets and sidewalks ; Conclusion : staying alive / William Sharpe -- Architecture in New York City. New York in 1940 ; The impact of the war ; Early postwar housing ; Transportation facilities and office buildings ; Technological developments ; The impact of concrete construction ; Urban renewal and its consequences / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- The city and the visual arts. World War II and abstract expressionism ; Sense of tragedy ; American artists ; Exhibitions and galleries ; The art world ; New York school ; Abstract expressionism and sculptors ; Era of conformity and affluence ; Painters and the other arts ; The city as theme ; The 1950s ; Pop art and minimal art / Dore Ashton -- Toward an American dance : dance in the city. Modern dance : from politics to myth ; Ballet : from Americana to abstraction ; The new avant-garde / Lynn Garafola -- The city and the theater. Theater in the early years ; Theater versus drama ; History of American drama ; Musicals ; World War II and after ; Serious drama ; Other serious playwrights ; Birth and rise of Off-Broadway ; Theaters / Richard Gilman.
New York's music. New York's coming of age, 1890-1940 ; Business and technology ; Performing institutions ; Classical composition ; Jazz ; Broadway and Tin Pan Alley ; Folk, rock, and the rise of the underclass ; Toward the present / John Rockwell -- The social and intellectual life of the city. The intellectual iceberg ; Beneath the surface (complacency) ; The limits of "chicness" / Alexander Bloom.

ISBN:

0847809900
9780847809905

Subject:

Arts New York (Ville) 20e siècle.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Cultuur.
New York (N.Y.) Civilization.
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life.
New York (N.Y.) Civilization Pictorial works.
New York (Ville) Civilisation.
New York (Ville) Vie intellectuelle.
New York (State) New York.
Geschichte 1940-1965
New York (N.

Added entries:

Wallock, Leonard.
Ashton, Dore.
Sharpe, William

New York, 1940-1965

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Location: Library main 40584
Call No.: ID:89-B1040
Status: Available

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