Picturing the city : urban vision and the Ashcan School /
Zurier, Rebecca.
Berkeley, Ca ; London : University of California Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-387) and index.
The setting: Another look at the Ashcan School -- Seeing New York: the turn-of-the-century culture of looking -- A walk through the city on paper: the tradition of the mobile observer -- The artists -- Robert Henri and the real thing -- The reporter's vision: Everett Shinn and the city as spectacle -- The cartoonist's vision (Part 1): William Glackens and the legible city -- The cartoonist's vision (Part 2): Bellows, Luks, and urban difference -- John Sloan's urban vision -- The storyteller's vision: John Sloan and the limits of Visual knowledge -- Conclusion: the legacy of the Ashcan School.
Ashcan school of art.
Art, American