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Cityscapes: A History of New York in Ima

by Howard B. Rock
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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9780231106252
  • Binding: Misc
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Original Price: USD 34.95
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 694 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Through almost 800 images, Cityscapes tells the story of the city from its origins in the early seventeenth century through the end of the twentieth century. In lithographs, paintings, drawings, and broadsides, New York is portrayed as rising from a small Dutch outpost to a republican seaport whose life was framed by the American Revolution to its transformation as the world economic and artistic capital of the late twentieth century.

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Rock, a historian, and Moore, a professor of religion, identify and trace the strands that make up the complex, vibrant genetic code of the mighty city of New York. Eloquently linking fine prints and magnificent photographs (many by renowned photographers) with an impressively fluid text, they present a classy stop-motion film of the evolution of Manhattan from a small seventeenth-century Dutch settlement at the southern tip to the great massing of towers that claimed the entire island at the close of the twentieth century. Throughout this fascinating, artistic, and, most importantly, humanistic chronicle, Rock and Moore keep everything in motion. They track the exponentially increasing number and variety of trades, religions, races, and ethnicities. They analyze architecture and infrastructure and document changes in commerce, culture, and city services, capturing the texture of life and the "sharp contrasts" at the city's hectic heart. In the closing chapter, images of the World Trade Center serve as poignant reminders that the next pictorial history of New York will begin with the center's horrific destruction. Donna Seaman
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"A fascinating amalgam of essays and illustrations." - New York Daily News; "A well-illustrated...cultural history." - USA Today; "Covers all the bases. But it's the often surprising midcentury photographs that are most compelling." - New York Magazine; "Terrific old illustrations and photos." - The Miami Herald"

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