Swing Time Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York

Edited by Barbara Haskell. Essays by Morris Dickstein, Erika Doss, Barbara Haskell, Jackson Lears, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, and Sasha Nicholas

Published by GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society

Release Date — October 2012 (UK and USA)

Dimensions — 208 pages, 292 x 254 mm, (10 x 11½ in)

Illustrations — 80 colour and 35 b&w

Hardback price — UK£35.00/US$55.00

ISBN — 978-1-904832-09-0

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Press Release — The Exuberant Chaos of Modern Life

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Introduces new audiences to Marsh’s art while also providing a fresh perspective for those familiar with his work

Features 1930s social realist painting and documentary photography

Includes essays by leading scholars of American history, English literature, theatre, American studies, photography

About the Book

Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York is the first major assessment of the work of ‘American Scene’ artist Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) in 30 years. Focusing on 60 paintings, drawings, and prints, drawn from public and private collections across the U.S., along with a selection of his photographs and sketches, it puts Marsh’s exuberant depictions of urban daily life within the context of the economic uncertainty of 1930s America and the work of fellow artists who shared his interest in the New York scene.

This striking volume sets Marsh’s fascinating work of the 1930s alongside paintings, prints, and photographs of contemporaries such as Isabel Bishop, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walt Kuhn, Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Guy Pene du Bois, Bernice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, Walker Evans and Arthur Rothstein. Together, they tell a complex and highly contrasting visual story of New York City life in this tumultuous time of change

About the Author(s)

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).