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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^)
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