Art and the subway
Subtitle: New York underground
By: Tracy Fitzpatrick.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780813544526
Subjects: Subways in art; Subways -- New York (State) -- New York; Art and society -- New York (State) -- New York; New York (N.Y.) -- In art
Genres: In art.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Going underground: planning and construction, to 1900; title: Subway beautiful: architecture, design, and the imagination, 1900-1904; title: "Come take a ride": music, painting, and film, 1900-1915; title: Futurism underground: modernist painting, 1913-1929; title: Anything goes in the subway: art and social realism, 1920-1950; title: Race and the subway: painting and illustration, 1920-1965; title: Hunters, spies, and voyeurs: subway photography, 1938-1956; title: Subway art "off the wall": maps, assemblage and site specific installation, 1966-2006; title: Chance in the subway: performance art and social engagement, 1962-2001; title: "Words of the prophets": subway graffiti, 1969-1989; title: Armed for the journey: subway photography, 1970-2002; title: "I saw it in the BRT": art and advertising in the subway, 1926-1986; title: A "living museum": public art in the subway, 1973-to the present.