New York Mid-Century: Post War Capital of Culture 1945-1954

About the Author Annie Cohen-Solal is a best-selling author whose works include biographies of Jean-Paul Sartre and kingmaker art dealer Leo Castelli. Paul Goldberger is former chief architecture critic for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Robert Gottlieb, formerly editor of the New Yorker, is now dance critic for the New York Observer. Product Description New York Mid Century is the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour – art, architecture, design, music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians, designers, architects, dancers, and choreographers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, elevations, plans, posters, programmes and ephemera, this is a stirring evocation of a remarkably fertile period in the city’s history, the styles and aesthetics of which are now very much back in vogue. Review 'Catalogues the spectacular results of a city’s culture catching up with its affluence … paints a vivid picture of cultural life half a century ago' - Standpoint Book Description A fascinating study of New York’s emergence as the cultural capital of the postwar world, powerfully told by three renowned authorities in their respective fields From the Back Cover New York Mid Century is the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour art, architecture, design, music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians, designers, architects, dancers, and choreographers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, elevations, plans, posters, programmes and ephemera, this is a stirring evocation of a remarkably fertile period in the citys history, the styles and aesthetics of which are now very much back in vogue.