| Description |
xx, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Before the Modern: The New York Renaissance -- 1. Times Square: Urban Realism for a New New York -- 2. Paris and New York: From Cubism to Dada -- 3. Bohemian Ecstasy: Modern Art and Culture -- 4. New York Modern: Art in the Jazz Age -- 5. Rhapsody in Black: New York Modern in Harlem -- 6. Modernism versus New York Modern: MoMA and the Whitney -- 7. True Believers on Union Square: Politics and Art in the 1930s -- 8. Behind the American Scene: Music, Dance, and the Second Harlem Renaissance -- 9. New York Blues: The Bebop Revolution -- 10. Homage to the Spanish Republic: Abstract Expressionism and the New York Avant-Garde -- 11. Life without Father: Postwar New York Drama -- 12. Renovating the Modern: Monuments and Insurgents |
| Summary |
In New York Modern, William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff explore how the varied features of the urban experience in New York inspired the works of artists such as Isadora Duncan, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, Duke Ellington, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jackson Pollock, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Diane Arbus, who together shaped twentieth-century American culture. Handsomely illustrated and engagingly, written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-434) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York.
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| SUBJECT |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108455
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| Author |
Rutkoff, Peter M., 1942-
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| LC no. |
98041864 |
| ISBN |
0801859980 (acid-free paper) |
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0801867932 (paperback) |
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