New York: Culture Capital of the World, 1940-65 - Hardcover

Wallock, Leonard; Ashton, Dore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847809900 ISBN 13: 9780847809905

Verlag: Rizzoli International Publications, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the protective shrinkwrap. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. (80 col. ) ; 27 cm. Subjects: New York (N. Y. ) --Civilization. New York (N. Y. ) --Intellectual life. Summary: A skillful appraisal of a period of unparalleled creativity that marked New York City as the cultural center of the world. Housing developments and urban fiction, jazz and modern dance, political protest and mixed media productions--all are subjects for study by an impressive group of experts. They show how the city, accommodating a "ceaseless flow of talent" in an aura of unlimited possibilities, provided both the raw materials and the intellectual ferment needed for new ways of thinking and of expressing images and ideas. There is a nostalgic look to the work, with extensively annotated illustrations of the familiar and slightly historic--images of expectation and enthusiasm in a city in which everything was happening and everything was new. An important record of a singular time.

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Essays discuss literature, architecture, the visual arts, dance, theater, music, and intellectual life in postwar New York City.

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• Verlag: Rizzoli International Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0847809900
• ISBN 13: 9780847809905
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292