Lee Krasner: A Biography - Rilegato

Levin, Gail

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ISBN 10: 0061845256 ISBN 13: 9780061845253

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2011

Riassunto

Examines the life of the no-nonsense woman best known as Jackson Pollock's wife, who actually was a cutting-edge modernist artist in her own right, but whose later life was marred by Pollock's alcoholism, infidelity and other destructive behavior.

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“Ms. Levin’s perceptive, judicious book reveals Krasner as a fine, important painter....This is an insightful, sharply drawn portrait of 20th-century America from the vantage point of a creative woman swept up in a realm of remarkable artistic productivity.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Art historian Gail Levin’s Lee Krasner is a quintuple whammy of a biography―the story of a major artist; a description of a notorious marriage; an education in 20th-century art; a gossipy immersion into Bohemian New York; and a settling of scores against those who practiced gender bias.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)

“Compelling. Art historian Gail Levin has drawn on her close association with Lee Krasner and extensive research to produce a biography that rings fair and true. (Los Angeles Times)

“It’s about time someone set the record straight about artist Lee Krasner.... Absorbing.... Succinct... Invaluable.... A compelling biography that is as important an addition to the library of American art as any book on Pollock.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

“For the love of art....Art historian Gail Levin frames the extremely colorful life of Lee Krasner, major ass-kicking Abstract Expressionist and formidable genius in her own right, better known for boosting the career of her splashier-than-life husband, Jackson Pollock.” (Vanity Fair)

“Art historian Levin befriended Krasner, starting when she was a grad student who interviewed the artist, and she gives Krasner a well-deserved full-fledged bio.” (New York Post (Required Reading))

Gail Levin’s stunning new biography finally proves Krasner’s relationship with Jackson Pollock was only a sliver of an enormously colorful life.... Levin’s biography ensures that Lee Krasner will never again be known merely as “Mrs. Jackson Pollock. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“Thorough.... A biography worth celebrating.” (East Hampton Star)

“[B]iographer Gail Levin sets the record straight: Krasner was a fierce, fascinating and gifted artist... Lee Krasner adds more luster, meticulously tracing the artist’s life.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“Written with unassuming grace. This rigorously researched, straightforward account attempts to set the record straight about Krasner....the artist could not have found a more gifted biographer to retell her story and argue her case.... [a] fascinating and absorbing biography.” (Jewish Daily Forward)

L'autore:

Gail Levin is the author of Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, Becoming Judy Chicago, and many other books on twentieth-century and contemporary art. She is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York.

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061845256
• ISBN 13: 9780061845253
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 546