Tracy Fitzpatrick

Art and the Subway

New York Underground

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Produktbeschreibung

Art and the Subway explores artistic production surrounding the worlds most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 to the present day. Using a stunning array of images, Tracy Fitzpatrick 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 184mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 912g
• ISBN-13: 9780813544526
• ISBN-10: 0813544521
• Artikelnr.: 23821150

Autorenporträt

Tracy Fitzpatrick is an assistant professor in art history at Purchase College (SUNY) and a curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
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, 1920-195
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
Notes
Index
Copyright