Main entry:

Zurier, Rebecca, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-387) and index.
Part One: 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 -- Part Two: 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 -- Part Three: John Sloan's urban vision -- The storyteller's vision: John Sloan and the limits of Visual knowledge -- Conclusion: the legacy of the Ashcan School.

Summary:

Picturing the City takes a 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 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 Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan - Zurier illuminates the quest for new forms of realism to describe changes in urban life, commercial culture, and codes of social conduct in the early 1900s. Synthesizing visual and literary analysis with urban cultural history, Picturing the City focuses new attention on the materiality and design process of pictures. The author scrutinizes all manner of visual activity, from the pandemonium of comics ot the mise-en-scene of early movies, from the mark of an individual pen stroke to a glance on the street, from illustrators' manuals to ambitious paintings that became icons of American art. By situating the Ashcan School within its proper visual cuture, Zurier opens up the question of what the artists' "realism" meant at a time when many other forms of representation, including journalism and cinema, were competing to define "real life" in New York City. -- From amazon.com

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ISBN:

0520220188 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520220188

Subject:

Ashcan school
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eight (groupe d'artistes)
Ashcan school of art.
Art, American New York (State) New York 20th century.
Art américain New York (État) New York 20e siècle.
New York (N.Y.) dans l'art.
Ashcan School.
Art, American
Stadt
Stadtleben
Villes Aspect social.
Sujets de genre États-Unis New York (State) New York 20e siècle.
Stadtleben <Motiv>
Stadt <Motiv>
City and town life in art
New York (N.Y.) In art.
New York (State) New York
New York, NY
New York (N.Y.) Dans l'art.

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
Œuvres d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246967
Call No.: BIB 176519
Status: Available