Beatrice Mandelman, Taos modernist
By: Robert Hobbs.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Mandelman, Beatrice.; Painters -- New Mexico -- Taos -- Biography.
Description: Robert Hobbs calls Beatrice Mandelman one of the most original and important of the Taos abstract painters. An artist since the 1920s, she moved to Taos in the 1940s with her husband, Louis Ribak, and became one of the leaders of the third generation of New Mexico painters.

In the evolution of her work she has shown the influences of her early teacher Louis Lozowick and friends Willem deKooning, Jackson Pollock, and other New York abstract painters. She also studied with Fernand Leger and Francis Picabia in Paris, but painting in the relative isolation of northern New Mexico allowed her to create an important regional variant of the international modern style.

This book is not only a close examination of the life work of a lively and dedicated Taos artist, it is also about how Modernism developed and flourished outside of New York and Paris.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: The 1920s: the formative years; title: The 1930s: the great depression and social realism; title: The 1940s: Taos, New Mexico; title: The late 1940s and early 1950s: the school of Paris; title: The 1950s: moving toward abstraction; title: The 1960s to the mid 1970s: the poetics and problematics of White; title: The mid 1970s to the present: incipient postmodernism; title: Conclusion.