The Fourteenth Street School; Submitte in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 2003. Softcover. Black spiral binding with mylar front cover and black card back cover. 468 pp., double-sided. No illus. NF. Item #141696
A doctoral dissertation on The Fourteenth Street School in New York City. Urban realism, with a touch of Renaissance idealism, was the bread and butter of the Fourteenth Street School, a group of New York artists who made their mark between the world wars. Artists including Kenneth Hayes Miller, Isabel Bishop, Guy Pene du Bois and Reginald Marsh, who all lived and worked in the Union Square neighborhood and studied or taught at the Art Students League, created a typology of urban dwellers, depicting them in various public and private activities. Through these modern urban types, they cataloged changes in social and sexual politics that took place in the first half of the 20th century. Members of the group associated aspects of contemporary womanhood with the bodily types of Titian, Raphael and Rubens, their interest buttressed by the Art Student League's emphasis on life drawing courses for both male and female students. Unlike the abstract painters who were their neighbors, the Fourteenth Street School depicted rapid social change through the enduring subject of the human form, as they searched for a Renaissance ideal among the crowds of Union Square. (from a review by Jane Ford, UVa.).
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