Lee Krasner

by Levin, Gail

• ISBN13: 9780061845277
• ISBN10: 0061845272
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-13
• Publisher: Avon A

Summary

Lee Krasner is best known as the artist-wife of Jackson Pollock, the renowned abstract expressionist painter. Yet in this riveting biography, the first full-length account of her colorful life, Krasner emerges as a significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural lexicon. In this captivating book, art historian Gail Levin probes Krasner's relationship with Pollock, examining how this strong woman struggled to meet the challenges of their poverty, as well as her husband's alcoholism and extramarital affair, all the while encouraging his art. Drawing on new sources and numerous personal interviews?including with Krasner herself?Levin has written a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant woman, a most welcome work that recovers Krasner's voice and allows us to understand how her life intersected with and informed her art.

Author Biography

Gail Levin is the author of many books, including a biography of Edward Hopper and a multi-volume catalogue raisonn. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Beyond the Pale: A Brooklyn Childhood, 1908-21	p. 13
Breaking Away: Determined to Be an Artist, 1922-25	p. 31
Art School: Cooper Union, 1926-28	p. 41
National Academy and First Love, 1928-32	p. 51
Enduring the Great Depression, 1932-36	p. 79
From Politics to Modernism, 1936-39	p. 117
Solace in Abstraction, 1940-41	p. 143
A New Attachment: Life with Pollock, 1942-43	p. 177
Coping with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943-45	p. 197
Coming Together: Marriage and Springs, 1945-47	p. 231
Triumphs and Challenges, 1948-50	p. 249
First Solo Show, 1951-52	p. 269
Coming Apart, 1953-56	p. 289
Dual Identities: Artist and Widow, 1956-59	p. 315
A New Alliance, 1959-64	p. 339
Recognition, 1965-69	p. 367
The Feminist Decade, 1970-79	p. 389
Retrospective, 1980-84	p. 427
Acknowledgments	p. 453
A Note About Sources	p. 461
Selected Bibliography: Frequently Used Sources	p. 469
Notes	p. 479
Index	p. 535
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