Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0937311278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Virginia Mecklenburg is the chief curator for the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.Robert Snyder is a social historian and author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Pop Culture in New York.Rebecca Zurier is assistant professor of American Art at the University of Michigan.
George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan were friends and collaborators, each developing their own distinct style, each capturing different slices of New York life. Donna Seaman. From Booklist Between 1897 and 1917, six painters, none native to the city they so provocatively and energetically portrayed, challenged the standards for suitable artistic subject matter when they took to the streets of New York and seized on images full of motion and life. Most of the paintings, which are beautifully reproduced, are rarely seen in books, and some, especially Shinn's exceptional pastels and watercolors, are a revelation. Zurier and her coauthors, Robert Snyder and Virginia Mecklenburg, bring expertise in art, social, and cultural history to this lively volume. They profile each artist and analyze his works, establishing a visual context with photographs and graphic a
The Ashcan artists documented the city and its people in an almost journalistic fashion, exploring the same subjects occupying the press: immigration, the lower-middle class, and gender issues. They portrayed life at the street level, gravitating to bars, street corners, boxing clubs, beaches, parks, restaurants, movie theaters, and neighborhood meeting places. 110 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations. 100 greatest works by Bellows, Sloan, and the other painters of the Ashcan School. This book presents 100 of the greatest paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints
Everett D. Reese said America's Masterpieces. When Bill Gates bought a George Bellows oil for twenty-seven-and-a-half million dollars in November of 1999, the national media at last took notice of what may be the most important genre of American art - the Ashcan period of the early 1900's. This wonderful book captures the lives, times, and works of the six artists who brought the streets of tur. Quite Readable Treatment of the Ashcan School drkhimxz A pleasure to read. Informative as well. This is part of the story of Robert Henri and five of the artists associated with him in art history as the AshCan approach: Sloan, Luks, Shinn, Glackens and the somewhat younger, George Bellows, perhaps the best remembered of the group.They were not, like the contemporary Cubists or German Expressionists, in. nice, well-done and of course nice, well-done and of course, a bit too small. I don't think anything but a giant book could do justice