Resumen de Camden Town and Ashcan: Difference, Similarity and the 'Anglo-American' in the Work of Walter Sickert and John Sloan
The article examines the realist artwork of painters John Sloan, who painted in the Ashcan style, and Walter Sickert, a member of the Camden Town Group, with specific focus given to the Anglo-American quality of their often divergent works. The author details both painters' different use of perspective as well as their artistic relationship to urban environments. The ways in which these painters' depictions of cities signified a shift towards modernism are explained. The author is mainly concerned with the differences in their works, emphasizing such themes as interiority, depictions of poverty and suffering, and street culture.
