Main entry:

Scott, William B., 1945-

Title & Author:

New York modern : the arts and the city / William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999]
© 1999

Description:

xx, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-434) and index.
Before the modern : the New York renaissance -- Times Square : urban realism for a new New York -- Paris and New York : from cubism to dada -- Bohemian ecstasy : modern art and culture -- New York modern : art in the jazz age -- Rhapsody in black : New York modern in Harlem -- Modernism versus New York modern : MoMA and the Whitney -- True believers on Union Square : politics and art in the 1930s -- Behind the American scene : music, dance, and the second Harlem renaissance -- New York blues : the bebop revolution -- Homage to the Spanish Republic : abstract expressionism and the New York avant-garde -- Life without father : postwar New York drama -- Renovating the modern : monuments and insurgents.

Summary:

"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 Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, Duke Ellington, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jackson Pollock, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Diane Arbus, who together shaped twentieth-century American culture."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801859980 (acid-free paper)
9780801859984 (acid-free paper)
0801867932
9780801867934

Subject:

Arts, American New York (State) New York 20th century.
Arts américains New York (État) New York 20e siècle.
Arts, American.
Manners and customs.
Kunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Art Etats-Unis New York (State) New York 20e sic̀̀le.
American arts.
Modern art 1900-1999 (20th century)
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
New York (State) New York.
New York (N.Y.) Moeurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.

Added entries:

Rutkoff, Peter M., 1942-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201615
Call No.: NX511.N4 S3 1999
Status: Available