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ashcan school

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ashcan school: see Eight, the Eight, the, group of American artists in New York City, formed in 1908 to exhibit paintings. They were men of widely different tendencies, held together mainly by their common opposition to academism.
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Designed to "enlighten and entertain as well as inform," the volume includes brief entries on AARP, Abbott and Costello, the Afghanistan War, AIDS, Woody Allen, the ACLU, "Amos and Andy," Maya Angelou, the Ashcan School, Arthur Ashe, Fred Astaire, and the atomic bomb.
The contributions to The Urban Lifeworld: Formation, Perception, Representation range from a philosophical discourse on the nature of the lifeworld, via a discussion of musical theatre, an outline of the planning process in Copenhagen, to a discourse on the contradictory phenomenology of New York, from an essay on the Ashcan school of artists to an analysis of the work of Steen Eiler Rasmussen.
Van Gogh, Ashcan School, Edvard Munch and James Ensor, Chaim Soutine, Charles Demuth, Latin folk art, WPA photography, Diego Rivera.
 
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