| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) |
| Series |
Excelsior editions |
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Excelsior editions.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter I And Like That ... They're Gone; Chapter II Top and Bottom; Chapter III Vision from an Ashcan; Chapter IV The Ashcan Artists; Chapter V The Art Scene; Chapter VI Moving On; Chapter VII The City as Art; Chapter VIII People of the City; Chapter IX Life in the Ashcan City; Chapter X The Ashcan School and Its Critics; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art-expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it-they created one of the great American art forms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2017) |
| Subject |
Ashcan school of art.
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Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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City and town life -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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City and town life -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Ashcan School.
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ART -- General.
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Art and society
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Ashcan school of art
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City and town life
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016047726 |
| ISBN |
9781438466439 |
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1438466439 |
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