Title Ashcan art, whiteness, and the unspectacular man / Alexis Boylan

Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents What are you looking at? Bodies, desire, and portraits -- Working hard or hardly working? Labor, race, and manhood -- Sex sells: Desire, money, and male bodies -- Men seeking men Summary Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters - Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle -f aced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition to popular, political, and commercial cultures. They did so by repeatedly positioning white male bodies as having no cleverness, no moral authority, no style, and no particular charisma, crafting with consistency an unspectacular man. This was an attempt, both radical and deeply insidious, to make the white male body stand outside visual systems of knowledge, to resist the disciplining powers of commercial capitalism, and to simply be with no justification or rationale. Ashcan artists reconfigured urban masculinity for national audiences and reimagined the possibility and privilege of the unremarkable white, male body thus shaping dialogues about modernity, gender, and race that shifted visual culture in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Masculinity in art. Ashcan school of art. Painting, American -- 19th century -- Themes, motives Painting, American -- 20th century -- Themes, motives Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Ashcan School. History of art -- art & design styles. Individual artists, art monographs. Theory of art. ART -- Performance. ART -- Reference. Art and society Ashcan school of art Masculinity in art Painting, American -- Themes, motives United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016045819 ISBN 9781501325762 1501325760

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