The disappearance of objects : New York art and the rise of the postmodern city /
"In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new economy took shape, manufacturing lofts...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2009]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new economy took shape, manufacturing lofts, piers, and small shops were replaced by sleek high-rise housing blocks and office towers. Focusing on works by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, art historian Joshua Shannon shows how New York art engaged with this transformation of the city. Shannon convincingly argues that these four artists---all living amid the changes---filled their art with old street signs, outmoded flashlights, and other discarded objects in a richly revealing effort to understand the economic and architectural transformation of their city"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) : 159 illustrations (some color), maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300233599 0300233590 |
| Access: | Open access content |
| Language: | English |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 8, 2018). |
| Action Note: | digitized |