Ninth Street Women : : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern art
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Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Introduction -- Prologue : The Ninth Street show, New York, May 1951 -- Part I. 1928-1948 : Lee : Lena, Lenore, Lee -- The gathering storm -- The end of the beginning -- Elaine : Marie Catherine Mary Ellen O'Brien Fried's daughter -- The master and Elaine -- Art in war : The flight of the artists -- It is war, everywhere, always -- Chelsea -- Intellectual occupation -- The high beam -- A light that blinds, I -- A light that blinds, II -- The turning point : It's 1919 over again! -- Awakenings -- Separate together -- Peintres maudits -- Lyrical desperation -- Death visits the kingdom of the saints -- The new Arcadia -- Part II. 1948-1951 : Grace : The call of the wild -- The acts of the Apostles, I -- The acts of the Apostles, II -- Fame -- The flowering -- Riot and risk -- Helen : The deep end of wonder -- The thrill of it -- The puppet master -- Joan : Painted poems -- Mexico to Manhattan via Paris and Prague -- Waifs and minstrels -- Part III. 1951-1955 : Oh, to leave a trace : Coming out -- The perils of discovery -- Said the poet to the painter -- Neither by design nor definition -- Discoveries of heart and hand : Swimming against a riptide -- At the threshold -- Figures and speech -- Refuge -- A change of art -- Life or art -- The red house -- Five women : The grand girls, I -- The grand girls, II -- The grand girls, III -- Part IV. 1956-1959 : The rise and the unraveling : Embarkation point -- Without him -- The gold rush -- A woman's decision -- Sputnik, beatnik, and pop -- Bridal lace and widow's weeds -- Five paths ... -- ... Forward -- Epilogue.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: xvi, 926 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316226189
0316226181
9780316226172
SUBJECTS
Krasner, Lee, -- 1908-1984.
De Kooning, Elaine.
Hartigan, Grace.
Mitchell, Joan, -- 1925-1992.
Frankenthaler, Helen, -- 1928-2011.
New York school of art.
Women artists -- New York.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Abstract expressionism -- 20th century.
Women artists -- Biography.