Table of Contents

Contents: President's Foreword Curator's Preface Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and the Exuberant Chaos of Modern Life'-Barbara Haskell 'Keeping the Carnival in Town: Reginald Marsh and the Culture of the 1930s' - Jackson Lears 'The Urban Spectacle of Reginald Marsh' - Morris Dickstein '"Go Out into the Street, Stare at the People": Reginald Marsh and Surveillance Styles in Interwar American Art' - Erika Doss 'Camera-Crazed: Reginald Marsh's Photographs' - Sasha Nicholas 'Marsh's Techniques: The Craft of Painting and the Secrets of the Old Masters in Modern Times' - Lance Mayer and Gay Myers Plates Bibliography Index

About the Author

Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, and Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, City University of New York. Erika Doss is Chair and Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Barbara Haskell is Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guest Curator for Swing Time, Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York, and the author of numerous books and monographs on early to mid century American artists. Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Lance Mayer and Gay Myers are independent painting conservators and the co-authors of 'American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 (2011)'. Sasha Nicholas is an independent curator and art historian, and the co-author of 'Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge Of The World' (2011).

Reviews

"salutes the vivid world of 1930s New York City" Joanna Fantozzi, New York Daily News