TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,William B.
AU  - Rutkoff,Peter M.
TI  - New York modern: the arts and the city 
SN  - 0801859980 :
AV  - NX511.N4 S38 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Arts, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-434) and index; Prologue: Before the Modern: The New York Renaissance -- Times Square: Urban Realism for a New New York -- Paris and New York: From Cubism to Dada -- Bohemian Ecstasy: Modern Art and Culture -- New York Modern: Art in the Jazz Age -- Rhapsody in Black: New York Modern in Harlem -- Modernism versus New York Modern: MoMA and the Whitney -- True Believers on Union Square: Politics and Art in the 1930s -- Behind the American Scene: Music, Dance, and the Second Harlem Renaissance -- New York Blues: The Bebop Revolution -- Homage to the Spanish Republic: Abstract Expressionism and the New York Avant-Garde -- Life without Father: Postwar New York Drama -- Renovating the Modern: Monuments and Insurgents
N2  - New York City's crowded streets and energetic people, its vast population and enormous extremes of wealth and poverty, its towering buildings and technological marvels have marked it as the quintessential modern city since the turn of the century. Artists in particular identified with New York's newness, believing that it embodied the future and celebrating the excitement of the modern urban lives they both witnessed and led
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