The setting: Another look at the Ashcan School
Seeing New York: the turn-of-the-century culture of looking
A walk through the city on paper: the tradition of the mobile observer
Robert Henri and the real thing
The reporter's vision: Everett Shinn and the city as spectacle
The cartoonist's vision (Part 1): William Glackens and the legible city
The cartoonist's vision (Part 2): Bellows, Luks, and urban difference
John Sloan's urban vision
The storyteller's vision: John Sloan and the limits of Visual knowledge
Conclusion: the legacy of the Ashcan School.
