New York sights : visualizing old and new New York /

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Author / Creator:	Tallack, Douglas.
Edition:	English ed.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Description:	xii, 212 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Visual communication -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York. City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Landscape -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Arts, American. Buildings. City and town life. Intellectual life. Landscapes -- Social aspects. Visual communication. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951. New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life. New York (N.Y.) -- In art. New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. New York (State) -- New York. Art. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5788118

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ISBN:	9781845201708 (pbk.) 1845201701 (pbk.) 9781845201692 (cloth) 1845201698 (cloth)
Notes:	Includes filmography (p. [183]-185). Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-207) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Visual Imagination in Old and New New York
"A Great City...Makes its Own...Optical Laws"
"An Acceleration of Energies": People, Spaces, Movement and Products
2. "Unexpected Vistas": Visualizing Change
Picturesque New York
"Phantasmagorias of the Interior": At Home with the Leisure Class
"A Sense for Construction": Building Sights
3. "Accident and then Exigency": Elevated Views
"Rapid Transit...the Most Visible Manifestation of Urban Haste"
"The Right of Way": Representing a System
"Arbitrary Beginnings and Ends": The Return of Content
"The New Landscape of Abstraction and Artifice"
4. "Scene and Story": The City Up Close
"The General is at the Heart of the Particular": Downtown Scenes
Getting Around the City: "The Unexpectedness of Onrushing Impressions"
"ZEVO to Clean": Signs in the City
5. "A Sense, Through the Eyes, of Embracing Possession": Views from a Distance
King-size Pictures
"The Attempt to Take the Aesthetic View": New York City as a Work of Art
"Port of New York": The Manhattan Skyline
"The City Horizon was the One Horizon": Looking Down on the City
6. "New York, New York": Excess and Rationalization
"The Fantastic" and "the Utilitarian"
"That Which Changes Our Way of Seeing the Streets is More Important than What Changes Our Way of Seeing Painting": Visualizing Absence
List of Films
Bibliography

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