Description: Further DetailsTitle: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen FrankenthalerCondition: NewEAN: 9780316226172ISBN: 9780316226172Publisher: Back Bay BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/31/2019Item Height: 232mmItem Length: 150mmItem Width: 46mmItem Weight: 1020gAuthor: Mary GabrielLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern ArtISBN-10: 0316226173Description: 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. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life.Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: BiographyTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, Architecture & Antiques, Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartiga
Title: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartiga
EAN: 9780316226172
ISBN: 9780316226172
Release Date: 10/31/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
ISBN-10: 0316226173
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Number of Pages: 944 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Topic: Women, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Item Height: 1.7 in
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 38.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Mary Gabriel
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
