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• Title:Ashcan art, Whiteness, and the unspectacular man / Alexis L. Boylan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Boylan, Alexis L., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND1460.M38 B69 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Masculinity in art.
  Ashcan school of art.
  Painting, American--19th century--Themes, motives.
  Painting, American--20th century--Themes, motives.
  Art and society--United States--History--19th century.
  Art and society--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xvi, 264 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters - Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows, subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle -f aced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Ashcan artists countered this narrative, manipulating the bodies of construction workers, tramps, entertainers, and office workers to stand in visual opposition to popular, political, and commercial cultures. They did so by repeatedly positioning white male bodies as having no cleverness, no moral authority, no style, and no particular charisma, crafting with consistency an unspectacular man. This was an attempt, both radical and deeply insidious, to make the white male body stand outside visual systems of knowledge, to resist the disciplining powers of commercial capitalism, and to simply be with no justification or rationale. Ashcan artists reconfigured urban masculinity for national audiences and reimagined the possibility and privilege of the unremarkable white, male body thus shaping dialogues about modernity, gender, and race that shifted visual culture in the United States.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781501325755 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  1501325752 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:What are you looking at? Bodies, desire, and portraits
  Working hard or hardly working? Labor, race, and manhood
  Sex sells: Desire, money, and male bodies
  Men seeking men.