Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art

Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art /

"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. F...

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Main Author: Gabriel, Mary, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Krasner, Lee, > 1908-1984.
De Kooning, Elaine.
Hartigan, Grace.
Mitchell, Joan, > 1925-1992.
Frankenthaler, Helen, > 1928-2011.
1900-1999
Abstract expressionism > United States > 20th century.
Painting, Abstract > United States > 20th century.
Art, Modern > 20th century.
Women artists > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Abstract expressionism.
Art, Modern.
Women artists.
Painting, Abstract.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: The Ninth Street show, New York, May 1951
  • Part One, 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 Two, 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 Three, 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 Four, 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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