Hardcover
2002 · New Haven and London
by McDonnell, Patricia
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket. 219 pp. 95 color plates, 47 BW illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2002-2003 exhibitions presenting "more than one hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, and photographs that convey the highly charged experience of attending vaudeville, early moving-picture shows, and other forms of popular amusements. These works of art reveal much about the beginnnings of modernity in the United States and about how artists in early twentieth-century America searched for new pictorial vocabularies to express (truncated)