Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man

by Alexis L. Boylan

Book Overview

Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters-Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle-faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501325752
• ISBN13: 9781501325755
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"