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Overview

The celebrated survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work

The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first fully American modern art movement. Though the contributions of these women were central to American art of the twentieth century, their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts.
 
Women of Abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey. Lavishly illustrated with full-color plates emphasizing the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of the movement, this book features biographies of more than forty artists, offering insight into their lives and work. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns, and legacies of women in Abstract Expressionism, shedding light on their unique experiences. This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these important artists and offers keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole.


Published in association with the Denver Art Museum


Exhibition Schedule:

Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C. 
(10/22/16–01/22/17)

Palm Springs Art Museum
(02/18/17–05/28/17)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300208429
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 06/14/2016
Pages: 216
Sales rank: 234,922
Product dimensions: 10.40(w) x 12.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Joan Marter is Board of Governors Professor of Art History at Rutgers University and editor of the Woman’s Art Journal. Gwen F. Chanzit is curator of modern art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum and director of museum studies in art history at the University of Denver. Robert Hobbs is Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair at Virginia Commonwealth University and visiting professor at Yale University. Ellen G. Landau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. Susan Landauer, formerly chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, is an independent art historian and curator. Irving Sandler is a distinguished independent scholar, curator, and critic.


 
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