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

By: Publication details: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2006.Description: x, 407 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780520220188 :
  • 0520220188 (cloth : alk. paper) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22
LOC classification:
  • N6512.5.E4
  • N6512.5.E4
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-387) and index.

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.

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