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Doezema, Marianne. "George Bellows and Urban America, 1905-1913," Boston University, January 1990.
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This dissertation considers three of Bellows’s principal urban themes: The excavation for Pennsylvania Station, prize fights, and tenement-district life in New York City. Bellows tended to select prominent, often newsworthy subjects; thus, the images he produced often evoked particular associations for his contemporaries. To regain a sense of the connotations surrounding these pictures, the artist’s handling of urban themes is analyzed in terms of popular images, issues, and metaphors that were current in the mass media during the first decades of the twentieth century. Bellows’s gritty urban subjects bore the trappings of artistic rebellion; and, in many circles, that perceived rebellion carried larger cultural, and even political, overtones. Yet, Bellows’s paintings also won him critical acclaim and were embraced by a sizeable segment of the arts audience, perhaps, as this dissertation argues, because their implicit meanings was distinctly unrevolutionary.
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