Research Catalog

Title

New York, culture capital of the world, 1940-1965 / edited by Leonard Wallock ; essays by Dore Ashton ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Rizzoli, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wallock, Leonard
• Ashton, Dore

Description

292 p. : ill. (80 col.); 27 cm.

Alternative Title

• New York, 1940-1965.
• New York, 1940-1965

Subject

• Arts, American > New York (State) > New York
• Arts, Modern > 20th century > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Civilization
• New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life

Note

• Spine title: New York, 1940-1965.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 279-281.

Contents

• New York City : capital of the twentieth century. The world of tomorrow ; A global capital ; A city transformed ; The urban crisis / Leonard Wallock -- Living on the edge : New York in literature. Cities within the city ; Between two cities ; Urban eros : sex and violence ; Over the edge and underground ; Streets and sidewalks ; Conclusion : staying alive / William Sharpe -- Architecture in New York City. New York in 1940 ; The impact of the war ; Early postwar housing ; Transportation facilities and office buildings ; Technological developments ; The impact of concrete construction ; Urban renewal and its consequences / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- The city and the visual arts. World War II and abstract expressionism ; Sense of tragedy ; American artists ; Exhibitions and galleries ; The art world ; New York school ; Abstract expressionism and sculptors ; Era of conformity and affluence ; Painters and the other arts ; The city as theme ; The 1950s ; Pop art and minimal art / Dore Ashton -- Toward an American dance : dance in the city. Modern dance : from politics to myth ; Ballet : from Americana to abstraction ; The new avant-garde / Lynn Garafola -- The city and the theater. Theater in the early years ; Theater versus drama ; History of American drama ; Musicals ; World War II and after ; Serious drama ; Other serious playwrights ; Birth and rise of Off-Broadway ; Theaters / Richard Gilman.
• New York's music. New York's coming of age, 1890-1940 ; Business and technology ; Performing institutions ; Classical composition ; Jazz ; Broadway and Tin Pan Alley ; Folk, rock, and the rise of the underclass ; Toward the present / John Rockwell -- The social and intellectual life of the city. The intellectual iceberg ; Beneath the surface (complacency) ; The limits of "chicness" / Alexander Bloom.

ISBN

0847809900

LCCN

^^^88042704^

OCLC

• 17803607
• SCSB-12019856

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library