Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School

Publication Data

• Title Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School
• Author Rebecca Zurier
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Berkeley
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Ashcan school of art
• Art, American :: New York (State) :: New York :: 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) :: In art
• New York (N.Y.)

Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School by Rebecca Zurier. ISBN 9780520220188. Published by University of California Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.