Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Franke...
Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Franke...
Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art / Mary Gabriel.
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Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2018/6719
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xvi, 927 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Prologue: The Ninth Street show, New York, May 1951 -- Part One, 1928-1949. -- 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 ; I...
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Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"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, f...
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Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art / Mary Gabriel.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-892) and index.
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G 2018/6719
Record Identifier
74VKVQWZ7rpZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVQWZ7rpZ
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ISBN
0316226181 (hardcover)
9780316226189 (hardcover)
DDC
700.411
MMS ID
991024197285702626
