Item Number: 133025 Title: Coney Island : Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008 Author: Frank, Robin Jaffee (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780300189902 Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2015. 28cm., hardcover, 304pp., 228 color, 77 b&w illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: This dazzling catalogue highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island’s history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals. An extraordinary array of artists is represented, from George Bellows, William Merritt Chase, Reginald Marsh, and Joseph Stella to Diane Arbus, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Frank, Red Grooms, Weegee, and Swoon. Essays by prominent scholars analyze Coney Island through its imagery and ephemera as both a place and an idea—one that reflected the collective soul of the nation. (^Available February 2015^) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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