ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1983.
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Istorija umetnosti
Autor: Strani

The Art of New York / Edited by Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller

Umetnost Njujorka


Njujork 1983. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, bogato ilustrovano, veliki format (35 cm), 191 strana.
Napomena: na predlistu pečat prethodnog vlasnika; ako se to izuzme, knjiga je odlično očuvana.



THE ART OF NEW YORK is an extraordinary homage to the vitality, power, beauty, and magic of a great city. For the first time, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints by leading twentieth-century artists have been gathered together to form an insightful, loving portrait of `Oz on the Hudson.`
Editors Chwast and Heller have selected images that time and again reveal truths about the experience of living in New York: luminous skyscrapers against the night sky; a couple sunbathing on a roof; fantastic giant zebras straddling Midtown; crowds strolling past hot-dog stands on the Coney Island boardwalk; the quiet interior of an empty office at twilight. Childe Hassam`s Union Square in Spring, 1896, appears here along with Red Grooms`s Walking the Dogs, 1981. And so do all the styles and subjects of the artists in the years between—from Georgia O`Keeffe to Richard Estes, Piet Mondrian to Saul Steinberg, Edward Hopper to Robert Rauschenberg, Pablo Picasso to Christo.
James Atlas`s introduction states that `in The Art of New York, the city is an object of wonder; it astonishes and overwhelms.` The reader, whether native New Yorker or one of those countless emigrés inspired and nourished by the city, will surely agree.


Seymour Chwast is a director of Pushpin, Lubalin, Peckolick, a graphics firm in New York. His designs and illustrations have been used on posters, in animated films, and in packaging and advertising. A founder of Push Pin Press, Chwast designed a variety of typefaces and illustrated more than a dozen children`s books.

Steven Heller is the art director of The New York Times Book Review, He has curated exhibitions and produced numerous books on the satiric and graphic arts, including a study ofJules Feiffer. Heller writes regularly for Graphis, Print, and Upper and Lower Case magazines.

James Atlas is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet and is an associate editor of The Atlantic.


233 illustrations, including 120 in full color