The Role of Art in Historical Documentation
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These are, in any case, personal takes on the city’s landscape—Agematsu has curated them, in a senseÂ. Usui, who was also a furniture maker, had his works shown alongside artists corresponding to Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Charles Demuth. Like Demuth, Usui has been labeled a Precisionist, a time period used to describe the metallic, jagged, hard-edged look of the weather in his paintings. In the case of Bronx, N.Y., even the trees seem industrial, the look of their foliage rhyming with that of the tubes piled right into a pyramid in the foreground. These days,…
