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New York, culture capital of the world, 1940-1965
- Title
- New York, culture capital of the world, 1940-1965 / edited by Leonard Wallock ; essays by Dore Ashton, Alexander Bloom, Lynn Garafola, Richard Gilman, Carol Herselle Krinsky, John Rockwell, William Sharpe, Leonard Wallock.
- Publication
- New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F128.5 .N485 1988 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 292 pages : illustrations (80 color); 27 cm
- Alternative Title
- New York, 1940-1965
- Subjects
- Note
- Spine title: New York, 1940-1965.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 279-281.
- Contents
- New York City : capital of the twentieth century. The world of tomorrow ; A global capital ; A city transformed ; The urban crisis / Leonard Wallock -- Living on the edge : New York in literature. Cities within the city ; Between two cities ; Urban eros : sex and violence ; Over the edge and underground ; Streets and sidewalks ; Conclusion : staying alive / William Sharpe -- Architecture in New York City. New York in 1940 ; The impact of the war ; Early postwar housing ; Transportation facilities and office buildings ; Technological developments ; The impact of concrete construction ; Urban renewal and its consequences / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- The city and the visual arts. World War II and abstract expressionism ; Sense of tragedy ; American artists ; Exhibitions and galleries ; The art world ; New York school ; Abstract expressionism and sculptors ; Era of conformity and affluence ; Painters and the other arts ; The city as theme ; The 1950s ; Pop art and minimal art / Dore Ashton -- Toward an American dance : dance in the city. Modern dance : from politics to myth ; Ballet : from Americana to abstraction ; The new avant-garde / Lynn Garafola -- The city and the theater. Theater in the early years ; Theater versus drama ; History of American drama ; Musicals ; World War II and after ; Serious drama ; Other serious playwrights ; Birth and rise of Off-Broadway ; Theaters / Richard Gilman.
- New York's music. New York's coming of age, 1890-1940 ; Business and technology ; Performing institutions ; Classical composition ; Jazz ; Broadway and Tin Pan Alley ; Folk, rock, and the rise of the underclass ; Toward the present / John Rockwell -- The social and intellectual life of the city. The intellectual iceberg ; Beneath the surface (complacency) ; The limits of "chicness" / Alexander Bloom.
- ISBN
- 0847809900
- 9780847809905
- LCCN
- 88042704
- OCLC
- ocm17803607
- 17803607
- SCSB-9041601
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library