Editore: Stanford University, 2000
Da: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Dissertation. copied from microfilm by UMI; blue paper wraps, 217 pp., few BW illus. Dissertation. "Examines the ways in which several artists associated with the Ashcan School (George Bellows, Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan) sought in their works to make sense out of the unsettled, rapidly changing urban environment in which they lived by providing interpretative discussions of inidividual works of art and attending to the various cultural discourses which constructed the ways in which these artists look at, chose to depict, and most importantly to comprehend or conceptualize, their environment." (abstract). VG (As usual with dissertation copies: BW illus. are muddy or are missing due to copyright restrictions.).