Description
Book SynopsisExplores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
Going Underground: Planning and Construction, to 1900
Subway Beautiful: Architecture Design and the Imagination, 1900-1904
"Come Take a Ride": Music Painting and Film,1900-1915
Futurism Underground: Modernist Painting, 1913-1929
Anything Goes in the Subway: Art and Social Realism, 1920-195
Race and the Subway: Painting and Illustration, 1920-1965
Hunters Spies and Voyeurs: Subway Photography, 1938-1956
Subway Art "Off the Wall": Maps, Assemblage, and Site-Specific Installation, 1966-2006
Chance in the Subway: Performance Art and Social Engagement, 1962-2001
"Words of the Prophets": Subway Graffiti 1969-1989
Armed for the Journey: Subway Photography, 1970-2002
"I Saw It in the BRT": Art and Advertising in the Subway 1926-1986
A "Living Museum": Public Art in the Subway 1973 to the Present
Notes
Index
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