Art and the subway : New York underground / Tracy Fitzpatrick.

Main entry:

Fitzpatrick, Tracy, 1967-

Title & Author:

Art and the subway : New York underground / Tracy Fitzpatrick.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 267 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (1 color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
Going underground: planning and construction, to 1900 -- Subway beautiful: architecture, design, and the imagination, 1900-1904 -- "Come take a ride": music, painting, and film, 1900-1915 -- Futurism underground: modernist painting, 1913-1929 -- Anything goes in the subway: art and social realism, 1920-1950 -- Race and the subway: painting and illustration, 1920-1965 -- Hunters, spies, and voyeurs: subway photography, 1938-1956 -- Subway art "off the wall": maps, assemblage and site specific installation, 1966-2006 -- Chance in the subway: performance art and social engagement, 1962-2001 -- "Words of the prophets": subway graffiti, 1969-1989 -- Armed for the journey: subway photography, 1970-2002 -- "I saw it in the BRT": art and advertising in the subway, 1926-1986 -- A "living museum": public art in the subway, 1973 to the present.

Summary:

Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.

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ISBN:

9780813544526 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0813544521 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Subways in art.
Subways New York (State) New York.
Art and society New York (State) New York.
Métros dans l'art.
Métros New York (État) New York.
Art et société New York (État) New York.
Art and society.
Subways.
Kunst
Untergrundbahn
Tunnelbanekonst Förenta staterna New York.
New York (N.Y.) In art.
New York (State) New York.
New York, NY

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262133
Call No.: BIB 193195
Status: Available

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