Title: New York modern
First published: 1999
Description: In New York Modern, William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff explore how the varied features of the urban experience in New York inspired the works of artists such as Isadora Duncan, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, Duke Ellington, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jackson Pollock, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin, and Diane Arbus, who together shaped twentieth-century American culture.

Handsomely illustrated and engagingly, written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience.
Subjects: American Arts, Arts, American, Social life and customs, Modern Arts, Art, Moeurs et coutumes, Modernisme (cultuur), Modern art, Manners and customs, Kunst, Arts, modern, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, Cities and towns, Arts
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: NX511.N4 S38 1999