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Author Zurier, Rebecca.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  759.147 Z96P    Check Shelf
Description x, 407 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-387) and index.
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.
Subject Ashcan school of art.
Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- In art.
ISBN 0520220188 cloth alkaline paper
9780520220188 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780520220188
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