George Luks, "Hogan's Alley," and Ashcan School social thought.(Critical essay)

From: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

It is repeated as a truism in the literature of American art history that newspaper illustrations created by George Luks and his cohorts from Philadelphia (William Glackens, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn) formed the foundation for their developing interest in urban realist subjects and awakened their desire to be taken seriously as artists. (1) Yet their drawings created for the press have been regarded as but a prelude to the more serious business of making art. (2) These assumptions have stymied attempts to analyze the social and cultural meanings Luks attached to his newspaper ...

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