Ashcan art, Whiteness, and the unspectacular man / Alexis L. Boylan.
Ashcan art, Whiteness, and the unspectacular man / Alexis L. Boylan.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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G 2017/2661
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English
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xvi, 264 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
What are you looking at? Bodies, desire, and portraits -- Working hard or hardly working? Labor, race, and manhood -- Sex sells: Desire, money, and male bodies -- Men seeking men.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters - Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle -f aced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulatin...
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Ashcan art, Whiteness, and the unspectacular man / Alexis L. Boylan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/2661
Record Identifier
74VKVLvd00wd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVLvd00wd
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ISBN
1501325752 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781501325755 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
700.45211
MMS ID
991024107918002626
