Ninth Street Women - Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler - Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a national book award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jennifer Szalai, New York Times . Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting - not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases.

  • Suggested age range - Adult
  • Format - Paperback
  • Dimensions - 5.9" W x 9.1" H x 1.8" D
  • Genre - Art, Architecture & Photography
  • Publisher - Little, Brown and Company, Publication date - 09-24-2019
  • Page count - 944
  • ISBN - 9780316226172

Web ID: 17693452

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5 years ago
from Oklahoma City

Wonderful read about women artists.

Before this book the only books I'd read about Abstract Expressionism were books on Jackson Pollock. I knew that Lee Krasner was an artist, but the books on Pollack never gave an adequate picture of Lee's work. This book was inspiring. To know how many women made gains within the Abstract Expressionist or New York School of painting was interesting to read. Often, while I read (listening to bebop) I would stop to look up an image mentioned in the work. I walked away from this book wanting to read more about the women mentioned in the book. A well written book and a must for anyone interested in art history or in women as creators.

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