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Lee Krasner : a biography / Gail Levin.
Fine Arts Library ND237.K677 L48 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levin, Gail, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984.
- Krasner, Lee.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Painters' spouses.
- United States.
- Painters' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, [2011]
- Summary:
- "LEE KRASNER, best known as Jackson Pollock's wife, reveals a woman who was a firebrand and trailblazer for women's rights, who also led a fascinating life, and who is finally now being recognized as one of the 20th century's modernist masters"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Beyond the pale: a Brooklyn childhood, 1908-21
- Breaking away: determined to be an artist, 1922-25
- Art school: Cooper union, 1926-28
- National Academy and first love, 1928-32
- Enduring the great depression, 1932-36
- From politics to modernism, 1936-39
- Solace in abstraction, 1940-41
- A new attachment: life with Pollock, 1942-43
- Copying with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943-45
- Coming together: marriage and springs, 1945-47
- Triumphs and challenges, 1948-50
- First solo show, 1951-52
- Coming apart, 1953-56
- Dual identities: artist and widow, 1956-59
- A new alliance, 1959-64
- Recognition, 1965-69
- The feminist decade, 1970-79
- Retrospective, 1980-84.
- ISBN:
- 9780061845253
- 0061845256
- 9780061845277
- 0061845272
- 9780062017796
- 0062017799
- OCLC:
- 641532157
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