New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York - Softcover

Tallack, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845201701 ISBN 13: 9781845201708

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

When we think 'city', we think New York. From downtown to uptown, no other urban space can claim such a famous skyline or such intensely varied street-life. It is a city that dazzles with its constant visual stimulation.Lavishly illustrated, New York Sights considers the formative period when a nostalgically evoked 'Old New York' transformed into 'New New York', ultimately becoming the modernist city of the twentieth century. Drawing on photography, film, and painting, the author considers the changing skyline, the grid-plan, the growth of the elevated railroad, the homes of the leisure classes, and city streets. Among the artists discussed are: Alfred Stieglitz, Jacob Riis, Georgia O'Keefe, John Sloan, Childe Hassam, and George Bellows. He also looks at the post World War II-period and the shocking visual prospect of a New York skyline without the Twin Towers.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Tallack is Professor of American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nottingham. Among his publications are The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story; Twentieth-Century America and City Sites: Multi-Media Essays on New York and Chicago. Professor Tallack has twice won the Arthur Miller Prize for the best American Studies article of the year, and has published many essays on American intellectual and cultural history, and critical theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845201701
• ISBN 13: 9781845201708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232