John Fagg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6543958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Fagg |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Fagg |
| SIGNATURE | FAGG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity
Working and Waiting
Chamber Pots and Gibson Girls
In the New York City Life etchings of 1905–06 and in the satirical and occasionally scatological “distortions” of mass-market magazine covers and advertisements he began to make around the same time, John Sloan created an art invested in the materiality of bodies and things. These works satirize and set themselves against the trends in commercial illustration—and specifically Charles Dana Gibson’s famous Girl and her imitators—which defined the v…
The Bewhiskered Rustic, Turned Orator”
This article takes as its starting point an illustration of an angry, bearded, rustic old man made by Robert Robinson for the cover of the November 26, 1910, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. It locates this image within the idiom of comic-narrative commercial illustration that Robinson contributed to and that Norman Rockwell would eventually master, and in the wider context of a burgeoning mass visual culture that facilitated subtle allusions …
Sport and Spectatorship as Everyday Ritual in Ben Shahn's Painting and Photography
Ben Shahn's paintings and photographs of sport and spectatorship made during the 1930s form part of a cultural discourse concerned to explore social relationships and everyday life in America. The position of sport within this discourse is established through a discussion of Morris Kantor's ‘Baseball at Night' (1934), and through reference to contemporary statements and cultural histories of the period. Close attention to Shahn's documentary phot…
From back number aesthetics to new expression
James Gibbons Huneker was an influential cultural critic in the decades around 1900. His idiosyncratic style has lead to his work being somewhat overlooked. This article relates Huneker's collection of New York travel sketches, New Cosmopolis (1915), to other examples of literary impressionism, and specifically to the work of J.K. Huysmans, Stephen Crane and Henry James. It then argues that New Cosmopolis moves beyond the aestheticism and detache…
British Encounters with American Art
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British Encounters with American Art
From back number aesthetics to new expression
James Gibbons Huneker was an influential cultural critic in the decades around 1900. His idiosyncratic style has lead to his work being somewhat overlooked. This article relates Huneker's collection of New York travel sketches, New Cosmopolis (1915), to other examples of literary impressionism, and specifically to the work of J.K. Huysmans, Stephen Crane and Henry James. It then argues that New Cosmopolis moves beyond the aestheticism and detache…
Sport and Spectatorship as Everyday Ritual in Ben Shahn's Painting and Photography
Ben Shahn's paintings and photographs of sport and spectatorship made during the 1930s form part of a cultural discourse concerned to explore social relationships and everyday life in America. The position of sport within this discourse is established through a discussion of Morris Kantor's ‘Baseball at Night' (1934), and through reference to contemporary statements and cultural histories of the period. Close attention to Shahn's documentary phot…
The Bewhiskered Rustic, Turned Orator”
This article takes as its starting point an illustration of an angry, bearded, rustic old man made by Robert Robinson for the cover of the November 26, 1910, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. It locates this image within the idiom of comic-narrative commercial illustration that Robinson contributed to and that Norman Rockwell would eventually master, and in the wider context of a burgeoning mass visual culture that facilitated subtle allusions …
Chamber Pots and Gibson Girls
In the New York City Life etchings of 1905–06 and in the satirical and occasionally scatological “distortions” of mass-market magazine covers and advertisements he began to make around the same time, John Sloan created an art invested in the materiality of bodies and things. These works satirize and set themselves against the trends in commercial illustration—and specifically Charles Dana Gibson’s famous Girl and her imitators—which defined the v…
Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity
Working and Waiting
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