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