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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"At last, a life of the incomparable Grace! Cathy Curtis's biography is as colorful, tough-minded, and incisive as Hartigan's work at its best" --
Patricia Albers, author of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life --
"A fascinating look at the life of Grace Hartigan, a tough Abstract Expressionist woman artist who drank with the best of the men and had a sexual appetite that equaled the alcohol. Ambitious, driven, and wrestling inner demons, she abandons...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the American artist's struggle to find his way during a period when his style was contrary to fashion, his relationship with his alcoholic mother, his struggles with addiction, and his interactions with such contemporaries as Julian Schnabel and David Salle.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the woman best known as Jackson Pollock's wife who was also 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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Description
"'Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead,' said a New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell in the 1950s. She was a steel heiress from the Midwest (her grandfather built Chicago's bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie). She was a daughter of the American Revolution- Anglo-Saxon, Republican, Episcopalian. She was tough, disciplined, courageous, dazzling, and went up against the masculine art world at its most entrenched, made her way in it,...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Electa
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An ideal introduction to the painter's work, Sargent: The Masterworks features 100 of his most beloved paintings. Illustrating all aspects of his diverse oeuvre-portraits, landscapes, mural commissions-in oil and watercolor, this handsome new book includes works from both private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art's infamous Madame X."--Amazon.com.
20) Warhol
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Language
English
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"Art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. 'The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,' as Gopnik writes. 'That's why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,' from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the 'performance' of being an artist, accompanied by global...
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