Fitzpatrick captures the emotions of artists and riders alike, as she explores paintings, photographs, performance art, graffiti, and public art by artists such as Walker Evans, Bruce Davidson, DONDI, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh, Elizabeth Murray, and many others. She also considers representations of the subway in film, on song sheet covers, and in illustration. By examining the cultural, technological, and social contexts for these creative interpretations, Fitzpatrick illuminates in fresh ...
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Fitzpatrick captures the emotions of artists and riders alike, as she explores paintings, photographs, performance art, graffiti, and public art by artists such as Walker Evans, Bruce Davidson, DONDI, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh, Elizabeth Murray, and many others. She also considers representations of the subway in film, on song sheet covers, and in illustration. By examining the cultural, technological, and social contexts for these creative interpretations, Fitzpatrick illuminates in fresh ways the contradictions and harmonies between public and private space. Featuring 17 color plates and 80 black-and-white images, Art and the Subway takes readers on a fascinating ride through the visual history of one of the twentieth century's greatest urban planning endeavors as it grew, changed form, and reinvented itself with passion and vitality.
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Add this copy of Art and the Subway: New York Underground to cart. $47.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Rutgers University Press.
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VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on mylar jacket at the base of the spine. Stamp on back free end page. Sticker and due date card on the back pasted end page. Stamp on title page. Black cloth casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in yellow down a black spine. Pages: (11), xii-xiii, (3), 1-267, (1). Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "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." Contents are as follows: 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.
Add this copy of Art and the Subway: New York Underground to cart. $54.70, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Rutgers University Press.
