Neither tramp nor Hobo: Images of unemployment in the art of the Ashcan school

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The Ashcan school comprised a group of six realist painters who lived and worked in New York City from 1900 to First World War and some of the most complex images of joblessness from this period were produced by the Ashcan school of artists. They were radicals rebelling against a conservative artistic community out of touch with modern American life and depicted the realities of the city around them, busy streets, shop girls, ethnic communities and tramps and John Sloan's The Coffee Line is typical of the kinds of images that Ashcan artists produced.

Poverty, Criticism and interpretation, Works, Painters, Painters (Artists), Painting, Painting (Art), Tramps

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Looking after the Singer Tower: The death and life of block 62

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The Singer Tower on Block 62, completed in 1908 was the tallest building in the world and in 1967 became one to be intentionally demolished by its owners. Produced by the international sewing-machine trade in the early 20th century and brought down by the international, industrial competition of the 1960s, its demise is the result of cultural triage performed by historic preservationists in the years after the passage of New York City's Landmark legislation in 1965.

Evaluation, Historic buildings, Cultural movements

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Boys' and girls' high school: Art and politics in the Civil Rights Era

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Art in schools is a barometer of aesthetic preferences and a measure of larger social issues in New York City. An outstanding collection of work by African American artists at Brooklyn's Boys' and Girls' High School was created and an analysis of the artists selected and resultant artworks provides an opportunity to examine the emergence of African American art movement and its role in the development of public art in New York City.

African American art, Art schools

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