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Book Review

Canada and the United States

William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff. New York Modern: The Arts and the City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 448. $39.95.

William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff have taken on an almost impossible task: namely, to chronicle the sweep of modern art and culture in New York from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s. With a sprawling cast of characters ranging from Walt Whitman and Charles Ives to James Baldwin and Miles Davis, from Orson Welles and Clifford Odets to Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller, and from Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray to Clement Greenberg and Diane Arbus, it is not surprising that the authors often strain to impose analytical coherence on their project. This is not a thesis-driven book in the manner of Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhatttan (1978) or Ann Douglas's Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995), although it is not lacking in an argument. The authors' contribution lies in channeling a tidal wave of twentieth-century cultural history into a single volume that will prove indispensable to students and other readers who are encountering the subject for the first time. It is easy to imagine many an advanced seminar starting with this book as its foundational text. . . .

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