A Short Life of Trouble : Forty Years in the New York Art World / Marcia Tucker ; edited, and with an afterword, by Liza Lou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Marcia, author.

Contributor:

Lou, Liza, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art museum curators--United States--Biography.

Art museum curators.

Art critics--United States--Biography.

Art critics.

Tucker, Marcia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2008]

Summary:

This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time. Her own new ways of thinking led her to take principled stands that have changed the way art museums consider contemporary art. As curator of painting and sc

Contents:

contents; prologue; one / 1945-1956; two / 1957-1959; three / 1960-1962; four / 1963-1964; five / 1965-1968; six / 1969-1970; seven / 1970-1974; eight / 1974-1976; nine / 1977-1980; ten / 1980-1983; eleven / 1983-1984; twelve / 1984-1993; thirteen / 1994-1995; fourteen / 1997; fifteen / 1998-2004; afterword by liza lou; author's acknowledgments; editor's acknowledgments; index; credits

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780520420816

0520420810

OCLC:

566105924