Lee Krasner

by Levin, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780062017796
• ISBN10: 0062017799
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-19
• Publisher: Harperluxe

Summary

Perhaps best known as the long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now, finally, being recognized as one of the 20th century's modernist masters. In Lee Krasner, author Gail Levin gives us an engrossing biography of the painter-so memorably portrayed in the movie Pollack by actor Marcia Gay Harden, who won an Academy Award for her performance-a firebrand and trailblazer for women's rights as well as an exceptional artist who led a truly fascinating life.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Beyond the Pale: A Brooklyn Childhood, 1908-21	p. 19
Breaking Away: Determined to Be an Artist, 1922-25	p. 46
Art School: Cooper Union, 1926-28	p. 61
National Academy and First Love, 1928-32	p. 77
Enduring the Great Depression, 1932-36	p. 121
From Politics to Modernism, 1936-39	p. 180
Solace in Abstraction, 1940-41	p. 220
A New Attachment: Life with Pollock, 1942-43	p. 272
Coping with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943-45	p. 302
Coming Together: Marriage and Springs, 1945-47	p. 354
Triumphs and Challenges, 1948-50	p. 381
First Solo Show, 1951-52	p. 411
Coming Apart, 1953-56	p. 442
Dual Identities: Artist and Widow, 1956-59	p. 481
A New Alliance, 1959-64	p. 517
Recognition, 1965-69	p. 560
The Feminist Decade, 1970-79	p. 592
Retrospective, 1980-84	p. 650
Acknowledgments	p. 689
A Note About Sources	p. 700
Selected Bibliography: Frequently Used Sources	p. 711
Notes	p. 733
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