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PublisherRutgers University Press

ISBN-100813544521

ISBN-139780813544526

eBay Product ID (ePID)66587462

Product Key Features

Book TitleArt and the Subway : New York Underground

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Public Transportation, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General, History / General

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Transportation, History

AuthorTracy Fitzpatrick

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-013963

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal709.747/1

Table Of ContentContents 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

SynopsisThe New York City subway, considered an engineering feat and a work of art, has kindled the imagination of millions. Art and the Subway explores artistic production surrounding the world's 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. 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberN8251