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.
In painting, sculpture, photography, film, music, dance,
theater, and architecture, New York artists redefined what it meant
to be "modern." Rooted in the urban realism of Walt Whitman, Thomas
Eakins, and Edith Wharton, New York artists combined the
revolutionary ideas and styles of European modernism with
vernacular images drawn from American commercial, folk, and popular
culture in their attempts to respond to the cacophony of voices and
blur of images drawn from the city's bars and cafes, tenements and
townhouses, skyscrapers and docks.
Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, "New York Modern"
documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in
capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience.
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