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The Painting of Urban Life, 1880–1930
In Van Wyck Brooks diagnosis, American “nature has been robbed and despoiled and wasted” by this violent human activity, the “temporary gains” offered by individualism and ambition and the net of settlement and human landscape laid over the world, and is now “taking its revenge”. This chapter describes some of the major ways in which American painters depicted the city over the fifty‐odd years between 1880 and 1930, years when urbanization became a dominant force in American life. New York was invoked by artists as gigantic and sublime, and was imaged by the toppling skyscraper‐urban skyline it presented from the waters of the bay. The provisional, fleeting quality of American urbanity, noted by Brooks, contributed to this situation, as if the flimsiness of the city in the landscape compromised the urban and left it haunted and oppressed by the presence of the natural beneath its bridges and glittering peaks.
The Painting of Urban Life, 1880–1930
In Van Wyck Brooks diagnosis, American “nature has been robbed and despoiled and wasted” by this violent human activity, the “temporary gains” offered by individualism and ambition and the net of settlement and human landscape laid over the world, and is now “taking its revenge”. This chapter describes some of the major ways in which American painters depicted the city over the fifty‐odd years between 1880 and 1930, years when urbanization became a dominant force in American life. New York was invoked by artists as gigantic and sublime, and was imaged by the toppling skyscraper‐urban skyline it presented from the waters of the bay. The provisional, fleeting quality of American urbanity, noted by Brooks, contributed to this situation, as if the flimsiness of the city in the landscape compromised the urban and left it haunted and oppressed by the presence of the natural beneath its bridges and glittering peaks.
The Painting of Urban Life, 1880–1930
Davis, John (editor) / Greenhill, Jennifer A. (editor) / LaFountain, Jason D. (editor) / Corbett, David Peters (author)
A Companion to American Art ; 562-580
2015-03-18
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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