Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0937311278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Their "prophet" was Walt Whitman, and their achievements create a vibrant record of urban growth and artistic evolution. 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. They profile each artist and analyze his works, establishing a visual context with photographs and graphic arts of the time. 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. Zurier and her coa
They portrayed life at the street level, gravitating to bars, street corners, boxing clubs, beaches, parks, restaurants, movie theaters, and neighborhood meeting places. 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. 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. In retrospect, it is difficult to imagine the American tradition in painting without these wonderful and moving works. 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. 110 full-color and 100 black-and-white illustrations
. 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
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 turn-of-the-century New York City to thrilling life. Bellows, Sloan, Henri, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn shared a collective talent and daring unseen before or since in the United States, a. Quite Readable Treatment of the Ashcan School 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, innovators in style and technique; rather it was to the subject matter with which they devoted much of their efforts, that give them a significant place in American art history. Their u. 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