Research Catalog

Title

Art and the subway : New York underground / Tracy Fitzpatrick.

Author

Fitzpatrick, Tracy, 1967-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xv, 267 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 26 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Subways in art
• Subways > New York
• Art and society > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > In art

Genre/Form

Art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780813544526 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813544521 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008013963

OCLC

• 217263399
• SCSB-10083507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library