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Scott, William B.; Rutkoff, Peter M. - New York Modern - 9780801867934 - V9780801867934
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New York Modern

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Description for New York Modern Paperback. Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience. Num Pages: 472 pages, 61, 61 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; ACX; AS; AVG; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 249 x 32. Weight in Grams: 934.
New York City's crowded streets and energetic people, its vast population and enormous extremes of wealth and poverty, its towering buildings and technological marvels have marked it as the quintessential modern city since the turn of the century. Artists in particular identified with New York's newness, believing that it embodied the future and celebrated the excitement of the modern urban lives they both witnessed and led. In New York Modern, William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff explore how the varied features of the urban experience in New York inspired the works of artists such as Isadora Duncan, Alfred ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801867934
SKU
V9780801867934
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Ref
99-50

About Scott, William B.; Rutkoff, Peter M.
William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff teach history and American studies at Kenyon College, where they held the NEH Chair as Distinguished Teaching Professors from 1997 to 2000. Together, they are also the authors of New School: A History of the New School for Social Research, 1917-1970. In addition, Rutkoff is the author of Revanche ... Read more

Reviews for New York Modern
This history is as lively as its subject, clarifying the genealogy of the successive rebellions that marked the unfolding of modernism. It pays particular attention to the contributions of African Americans, helping us see, for example, the link between bebop and Abstract Expressionism. New Yorker New York Modern mirrors the bewildering welter of its subject-zigzagging through time to cover the ... Read more

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