Lee Krasner

The first full length account of Lee Krasner''s colourful life In Gail Levin''s riveting biography, Lee Krasner emerges as a significant artist who richly deserves her place in the 20th century''s cultural lexicon. Drawing on new sources and numerous personal interviews - including with Krasner herself - Levin has created a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant woman, and in so doing recovers Krasner''s voice and allows us to understand how her life intersected with and informed her art.

Vorwort
The first full length account of Lee Krasner's colourful life

Autorentext
Gail Levin is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, Women's Studies, and Liberal Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written books on Edward Hopper, abstract expressionism, feminist art and American modernist art.

Klappentext
The first full length account of Lee Krasner s colourful life.

Zusammenfassung
The first full length account of Lee Krasner's colourful life

In Gail Levin's riveting biography, Lee Krasner emerges as a significant artist who richly deserves her place in the 20th century's cultural lexicon. Drawing on new sources and numerous personal interviews including with Krasner herself Levin has created a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant woman, and in so doing recovers Krasner's voice and allows us to understand how her life intersected with and informed her art.

Inhalt
Introduction . 1. Beyond the Pale: A Brooklyn Childhood, 1908-21 . 2. Breaking Away: Determined to Be an Artist, 1922-25 . 3. Art School: Cooper Union, 1926-28 . 4. National Academy and First Love, 1928-32 . 5. Enduring the Great Depression, 1932-36 . 6. From Politics to Modernism, 1936-39 . 7. Solace in Abstraction, 1940-41 . 8. A New Attachment: Life with Pollock, 1942-43 . 9. Coping with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943-45 . 10. Coming Together: Marriage and Springs, 1945-47 . 11. Triumphs and Challenges, 1948-50 . 12. First Solo Show, 1951-52 . 13. Coming Apart, 1953-56 . 14. Dual Identities: Artist and Widow, 1956-59 . 15. A New Alliance, 1959-64 . 16. Recognition, 1965-69 . 17. The Feminist Decade, 1970-79 . 18. Retrospective, 1980-84

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