Title: Art and the subway : New York underground /
Authors: Fitzpatrick, Tracy, 1967-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Subways in art.; Subways New York (State) New York; Art and society New York (State) New York.; New York (N.Y.) In art.
Abstract: Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.
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.