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Author:

Fitzpatrick, Tracy, 1967-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

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

Subject:

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

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)217263399

LCCN:

2008013963

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CLPC792 -- Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn)

LNPC975 -- Sergeant Bluff Public Library (Sergeant Bluff)