New York: The Painted City
- ISBN-10
- 0879054603
- ISBN-13
- 9780879054601
- Series
- New York
- Category
- Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
- Pages
- 88
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Peregrine Smith Books
- Author
- Grace Glueck
Description
Manhattan's dreamscape is the largest of the American success stories. Tourists come looking for excitement and a touch of high culture, businessmen come to prove themselves in the world's toughest market, politicians gather to debate global issues. Our world capital is also a magnet for creative spirits. The "Big Apple" never disappoints; it is the packed arena where art and entertainment, commerce and finance, sport and religion all battle together for the American soul. You hear the echoes of a long past everywhere in New York and feel the presence of strong personalities, wild deeds, and great collective events. From rural Dutch village of the seventeenth century to teeming metropolis in the late twentieth, New York City has mirrored and magnified the evolving American scene. For 350 years, the city has served as subject and inspiration for generations of American artists. Some of the most talented have created glorious city scenes; and some of the best of those are captured here. Enjoy the many faces and moods of New York: Hippolyte Sebron's horse-drawn trucks racing through the snow to a fire on Lower Broadway in the mid-nineteenth century; John Sloan's working-class women chatting on the rooftop in the early twentieth; a dramatic urban nightscape by Georgia O'Keeffe - and many more. No other city has been painted, sculptured, and photographed so often and to such effect. In this classic gift volume, the romance and reality of city life is celebrated in 41 color plates, with text by Grace Glueck, for many years a reporter and writer on art for the New York Times. Author of the recently published Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present, Glueck lives in Manhattan.
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