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Part of: COMM 159: Digital Media & the City (38 resources )
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COMM 159: Digital Media & the City

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Germaine Halegoua
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 3:55 p.m.

38 Items in this Learning Collection
New York at Night
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Collection Object
Night Shadows

Collection Object
My City
A collage of buildings and people. A speech bubble says, "My City." ONe image is of Godzilla.
Collection Object
Symphony of the City (Symphony of a Great City)
Overall black, yellow, white and orange. There is a man's head with a cigarette in his mouth. He has robotic arms and there is a skyscraper in the background.
Collection Object
Bar Romero, Greenwich Village
Black and white image of a night scene of a city street with a taxi pulled to the side of the curb, another coming towards it and with lights on.
Collection Object
Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer's right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
Collection Object
The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: Over the City
No. 25 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette. Three unique flying vehicles, operated by one or two people and surrounded by a flock of birds, hover in the sky over a futuristic-looking city.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
Collection Object
Crosstown Traffic
A night city traffic view with cars headingn to the same direction, having all the car headlights on.
Collection Object
New York City
This photograph depicts a view of a city sidewalk with pedestrians walking in front of a bar. In the middle of the frame is a phone booth with a woman inside, talking on the phone.
Collection Object
The Four Times of Day: Noon
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has “NOON” written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of adults and children in 18th century garb. The upper half shows the top of the buildings that line the street, including a shop, a brick building, and a church steeple in the distance.<br />
Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: City in Broad Daylight
No. 4 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; Several uniquely-dressed people, some with interesting headgear, walk down a winding road toward the viewer; except for the figure in the lower left corner with their back to the viewer. In the distance, behind them, are several buildings done in varied styles of architecture, along with trees, hills and two aircraft in the sky.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
Collection Object
Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a bird’s eye view of an urban rooftop garden composed in a series of organic shapes.  Pedestrians, cars, and streets are visible below the garden.
Collection Object
Wires, Santa Tereza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a view of an urban scene with telephone poles and electrical wires strung up and down a winding street.<br />  
Collection Object
Broadway Melody
abstract painting, tempera on board
Collection Object
Grain Elevator, Kansas City, Kansas

Collection Object
Building Reflection, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

Collection Object
Night-Times Square, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

Collection Object
Railroad Track

Collection Object
New York in Transit II

Collection Object
Street Scene
This is a brightly colored oil painting of a street scene. Buildings are depicted in pink, yellow, and white.  A lavender and blue sky with white and yellow clouds makes up the background. Two women stand in the lower left corner; another woman and a black dog are seen on the right side. The ground is made up of patches of white, yellow, pink, and blue.  Thick black outlines are used throughout and the paint has been applied in a very thick and factured manner. Traces of newspaper appear to have been laid on the painting while it was still wet and became stuck and are visible in the clouds at the top and in the white portion of the central building, just under the street lamp.
Collection Object
New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
Collection Object
Night View Wing I

Collection Object
Stakes is high
A collage drawing with "Stakes is high" in large bubble letters at the top. The bottom of the drawing is a sparse cityscape and a figure wearing a purple skimask looking at the viewer.
Collection Object
When was the future?
A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.
Collection Object
A New Design for TV Chair
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
Collection Object
Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
Collection Object
From the Radio Tower, Berlin
Photograph looking straight down onto a built landscape.
Collection Object
Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
Collection Object
Motion Picture (Times Square)

Collection Object
City Neighborhood, from Kleine Grosz Mappe

Collection Object
Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
Collection Object
No Heroes Developed
This vertical oriented print shows a robot sitting on a chair with a revolver in his right hand. 
Collection Object
Wilmington, North Carolina, from "Master Prints Volume II"

Collection Object
The Archeologists IV (Gli Archeologi IV); Plate VI from the suite "Metamorphosis" (Metamorphosis is underlined)

Collection Object
Brainiac 5 no puede ganar contra tres maquinas
This vertically oriented print shows the cockpit of a car above, and early computers below. Between two of the computers sits a man with a chess board in front of him. Two other men look on, one having a speech balloon above his head which says "n<em>o puede ganar contra tres maquinas" or "</em>You can not win against three machines." Each machine has a speech balloon which says "Jaque."
Collection Object
Watch out for miracles... new hope for better babies
A portrait image in two tones of blue printed slightly off match, showing a man at the center dressed in a white shirt, tie and slacks, with dark-rimmed glasses. The man is leaning over a automoton/robot, which is seated to the left of him. On the right and to the back, are two more standing robots. Each robot has humanoid features like a face, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet with boots on. Two of the robots, one seated and one to the back at the center, have their internal workings revealed with their central torso panel removed, showing wires and indeterminate parts. 
Collection Object
Fleetwood Cadillac Plant, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

Collection Object
38 Items in this Learning Collection
New York at Night
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Collection Object
Night Shadows

Collection Object
My City
A collage of buildings and people. A speech bubble says, "My City." ONe image is of Godzilla.
Collection Object
Symphony of the City (Symphony of a Great City)
Overall black, yellow, white and orange. There is a man&#39;s head with a cigarette in his mouth. He has robotic arms and there is a skyscraper in the background.
Collection Object
Bar Romero, Greenwich Village
Black and white image of a night scene of a city street with a taxi pulled to the side of the curb, another coming towards it and with lights on.
Collection Object
Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water
Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer&#39;s right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.
Collection Object
The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: Over the City
No. 25 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette. Three unique flying vehicles, operated by one or two people and surrounded by a flock of birds, hover in the sky over a futuristic-looking city.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.<br /> &nbsp;
Collection Object
Crosstown Traffic
A night city traffic view with cars headingn to the same direction, having all the car headlights on.
Collection Object
New York City
This photograph depicts a view of a city sidewalk with pedestrians walking in front of a bar. In the middle of the frame is a phone booth with a woman inside, talking on the phone.
Collection Object
The Four Times of Day: Noon
This print is vertically oriented with gray markings. A cream border surrounds it and it has “NOON” written below it. The lower half of the print has a busy street scene with lots of adults and children in 18th century garb. The upper half shows the top of the buildings that line the street, including a shop, a brick building, and a church steeple in the distance.<br />
Collection Object
Sultana's Dream: City in Broad Daylight
No. 4 of a series of 27 prints. A simple, two-tone palette.&nbsp; Several uniquely-dressed people, some with interesting headgear, walk down a winding road toward the viewer; except for the figure in the lower left corner with their back to the viewer. In the distance, behind them, are several buildings done in varied styles of architecture, along with trees, hills and two aircraft in the sky.<br /> Sultana&#39;s Dream was printed and published by Durham Press in 2018.
Collection Object
Burle Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a bird’s eye view of an urban rooftop garden composed in a series of organic shapes.  Pedestrians, cars, and streets are visible below the garden.
Collection Object
Wires, Santa Tereza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This photograph depicts a view of an urban scene with telephone poles and electrical wires strung up and down a winding street.<br />  
Collection Object
Broadway Melody
abstract painting, tempera on board
Collection Object
Grain Elevator, Kansas City, Kansas

Collection Object
Building Reflection, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

Collection Object
Night-Times Square, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"

Collection Object
Railroad Track

Collection Object
New York in Transit II

Collection Object
Street Scene
This is a brightly colored oil painting of a street scene. Buildings are depicted in pink, yellow, and white.  A lavender and blue sky with white and yellow clouds makes up the background. Two women stand in the lower left corner; another woman and a black dog are seen on the right side. The ground is made up of patches of white, yellow, pink, and blue.  Thick black outlines are used throughout and the paint has been applied in a very thick and factured manner. Traces of newspaper appear to have been laid on the painting while it was still wet and became stuck and are visible in the clouds at the top and in the white portion of the central building, just under the street lamp.
Collection Object
New York in Transit I
In this long horizontally oriented print, we see multiple people of various colors on a subway car; some sit and others stand holding onto subway poles. Windows show various scenes- a plane in the sky, men playing basketball, fish, musicians, and a small group of people walking with a flag. 
Collection Object
Night View Wing I

Collection Object
Stakes is high
A collage drawing with "Stakes is high" in large bubble letters at the top. The bottom of the drawing is a sparse cityscape and a figure wearing a purple skimask looking at the viewer.
Collection Object
When was the future?
A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.
Collection Object
A New Design for TV Chair
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
Collection Object
Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
Collection Object
From the Radio Tower, Berlin
Photograph looking straight down onto a built landscape.
Collection Object
Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
Collection Object
Motion Picture (Times Square)

Collection Object
City Neighborhood, from Kleine Grosz Mappe

Collection Object
Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.
Collection Object
No Heroes Developed
This vertical oriented print shows a robot sitting on a chair with a revolver in his right hand. 
Collection Object
Wilmington, North Carolina, from "Master Prints Volume II"

Collection Object
The Archeologists IV (Gli Archeologi IV); Plate VI from the suite "Metamorphosis" (Metamorphosis is underlined)

Collection Object
Brainiac 5 no puede ganar contra tres maquinas
This vertically oriented print shows the cockpit of a car above, and early computers below. Between two of the computers sits a man with a chess board in front of him. Two other men look on, one having a speech balloon above his head which says "n<em>o puede ganar contra tres maquinas" or "</em>You can not win against three machines." Each machine has a speech balloon which says "Jaque."
Collection Object
Watch out for miracles... new hope for better babies
A portrait image in two tones of blue printed slightly off match, showing a man at the center dressed in a white shirt, tie and slacks, with dark-rimmed glasses. The man is leaning over a automoton/robot, which is seated to the left of him. On the right and to the back, are two more standing robots. Each robot has humanoid features like a face, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet with boots on. Two of the robots, one seated and one to the back at the center, have their internal workings revealed with their central torso panel removed, showing wires and indeterminate parts. 
Collection Object
Fleetwood Cadillac Plant, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

Collection Object

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Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")

Accession Number
1948/1.22

Title
Ants (Ameisen), from "In the Shadows" ("Im Schatten")

Artist(s)
George Grosz

Artist Nationality
German (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1920

Medium & Support
photolithograph on paper

Dimensions
14 in x 17 1/2 in (35.56 cm x 44.45 cm);14 in x 17 1/2 in (35.56 cm x 44.45 cm);18 1/8 in x 22 1/8 in (46.04 cm x 56.2 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser

Label copy
March 28, 2009
In 1914 Grosz, like many of his generation, volunteered for service in World War I. The experience left a deep, dark impression. In 1918, he joined the Berlin Dada Movement, whose aesthetic reflected their militant opposition to the political and social forces that had caused the Great War. The Dadaists shared Grosz’s anti-establishment views, but whereas his compatriots were unable to offer an alternative other than total anarchy, Grosz applied himself to more constructive criticism of the status quo, calling on artists to “collaborate in the building of a new human community, the community of working people.” His satirical drawings were published in radical leftist journals, such as the widely circulated Workers’ Illustrated News, and his portfolios were simultaneously published in cheap editions for the working class and deluxe editions for the elite collector, the sales of which offset the cost of the mass-produced editions.

Subject matter
One of George Grosz's many works from the period after the First World War that explore the hardship of the poor and the working class in Germany's economic crisis, against a backdrop of a decaying industrial landscape.

Physical Description
A group of laborers, wearing hats and jackets, walks from viewer's right to left along a street littered with garbage. The two in the front carry shovels. In the background is an industrial landscape, dirty and in disrepair.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
black and white print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Expressionism
cityscapes (representations)
factories (structures)
hats
men (male humans)
modern and contemporary art
transfer lithography
walking
workers

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