Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man

Dr. Alexis L. Boylan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7181-3 (ISBN)

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Arriving in New York City in the first decade of the twentieth century, six painters faced a visual culture that depicted the urban man as a diseased body under assault. Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Glackens, George Luks, and George Bellows—subsequently known as the Ashcan Circle—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 Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man maps how 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.

Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut, USA, with a joint appointment in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Director of Humanities Institute. She is the editor of Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall (Duke, 2011) and Ellen Emmet Rand: Gender, Art, and Business (Bloomsbury, 2020). She has published in American Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Rethinking Marxism, MELUS, and Woman’s Art Journal.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Are You Looking At? Bodies, Desire, and Portraits
Chapter 2: Working Hard or Hardly Working: Labor, Race, and Manhood
Chapter 3: Sex Sells: Desire, Money, and Male Bodies
Chapter 4: Men Seeking Men
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	32 color and 29 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 228 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-5013-7181-9 / 1501371819
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7181-3 / 9781501371813
Zustand	Neuware