9780393039016-0393039013-Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917

Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917

ISBN-13: 9780393039016
ISBN-10: 0393039013
Edition: First Edition
Author: Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Robert W. Snyder, Rebecca Zurier
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393039016
ISBN-10: 0393039013
Edition: First Edition
Author: Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Robert W. Snyder, Rebecca Zurier
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover 232 pages

Summary

Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917 (ISBN-13: 9780393039016 and ISBN-10: 0393039013), written by authors Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Robert W. Snyder, Rebecca Zurier, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1996. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Arts Collections books. You can easily purchase or rent Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Arts Collections books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.62.

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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 by a group of artists derogatorily dubbed the Ashcan School by the critics. George Bellows, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan ignored the romantic and lofty themes of many of their contemporaries and chose instead to depict the dramatic changes and conflicting social mores among the common people in turn-of-the-century New York City. 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. In retrospect, it is difficult to imagine the American tradition in painting without these wonderful and moving works. 110 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations
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