Metropolis: New York As Myth, Marketplace, and Magical Land
by Jerome Charyn
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In acid engravings and paintings, Hogarth captured the riotous excesses of middle-class England. His pictures transcend genre painting and make a universal commentary on human folly. But most of his successors recorded the tastes and manners of their times in an uncritical fashion. Examples include the "conversation pieces" and rural idylls of Arthur Devis and John Zoffany. Only infrequently, artists like Gainsborough and Stubbs, in limning the contemporary social scene, stumbled upon the show more actual. Victorian genre artists breathed some reality into pictures of families ruined by gambling and fallen women. Walter Sickert (18601942), rejecting genteel traditions, uncovered the beauty lurking in commonplace urban scenes. Johnson, a Princeton professor, objectively examines the highs and lows of Britain's socially relevant painting. The more than 200 plates here are marked by sharp local detail, robust characterizations and touches of humor. -- Amazon.com. show lessTags
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Vlak voordat ik overmorgen om 13.25 uur op het vliegtuig naar New York stap heb ik nog een boek over New York gelezen. Jerome Charyn is geboren in New York uit ouders die via Ellis eiland de Verenigde Staten binnen zijn gekomen. Voor dit boek heeft hij een aantal bekende New Yorkers geïnterviewd waaronder de toenmalige burgemeester Ed Koch. Zelfs voor iemand die in New York is geïnteresseerd is het maar een matig geschreven boek dat ook in niet echt soepel Nederlands is vertaald. Hopelijk is de stad zelf interessanter dan dit boek!
UItgelezen: maandag 2 april 2001
UItgelezen: maandag 2 april 2001
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Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1937. An author who primarily writes detective stories, Charyn's novels contain a wide array of characters ranging form a gorgeous, headstrong double agent to a greedy, corrupt lawyer. Charyn chronicles the life of Isaac Sidel El Caballo, the Mayor of New York City, in over half a dozen books, show more including El Bronx, Little Angel Street, Marilyn the Wild, and The Good Policeman. Among his latest novels is The Secret Life of emily Dickinson. The story is told from her point of view and incorporates both historical and fictional characters to tell what she may have been like. His next work was entitled Under the Eye of God. Widely translated, Charyn's novels have broad readership in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Japan, as well as the United States. Charyn lives in Paris where he teaches cinema at the American University of Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Metropolis: New York As Myth, Marketplace, and Magical Land
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- 1986
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