Table of Contents

Preface * Introductory essay by Rainer Crone. I. Metropolitan Life: - Studies in the Subway - Chicago - City of Social Contrasts - Mythologies of a Paddy Wagon - Filming of Naked City - Johnny Grant's Adventures Reporting for the Radio in New York - Artists in the New Center of the World: New York City - A Tale of a Shoe-shine Boy - Street Fight. II. Entertainment: - The World's Biggest Spectacle: A Circus Run by a Family - Jazz is Hot Again: Dixieland in New York - Framing a Showgirl's Daily Life - Copacabana: Shows in New York's Nightclub - Shadows Speaking - Dancing in High-button Shoes - Travelling Overseas to Portugal - Aqueduct Racetrack: Hopes, Despairs, and Routines - Amusements in the Palisades Park. III. Celebrities - Intimate Scenes with Leonard Bernstein - Narrating Dailies of a Rising Star: Betsy Von Furstenberg - The Young Montgomery Clift: A Conflicting Soul - World Sport Boxing and Its Two Mythic Heroes: Rocky Graziano; Walter Cartier. . Human Behaviour - Dogs in the City - Park Bench - Circus Portraits - Hand-writing Analysis - Monkeys Looking at People, and How They Look Back - Looking at Art in New York - A Baby's First Look Into a Mirror - Mama Shopping - Santa Claus in Action - Children Listening to Book Reading - Columbia University in New York - A Private University - Jealousy - First Love - Natural History. Bibliography * Index

About the Author

Rainer Crone holds the Chair for Twentieth Century Art and Media at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Formerly an Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York, he is the author of the first monograph on Andy Warhol (1970), and has since widely published on twentieth-century art and artists. His most recent books include Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells (1998), Auguste Rodin: Eros and Creativity (1991), and Kasimir Malevitch: The Climax of Disclosure (1991).

Reviews

'Fascinating' (Crime Time)