Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School /
Rebecca Zurier.
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2006.
- x, 407 p., 12 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Formerly CIP.
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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Ashcan school of art. Art, American--New York (State)--New York--20th century.