Ninth Street women
Subtitle: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art
By: Mary Gabriel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 927
ISBN-13: 9780316226189
Subjects: Modern Art; Women artists; Abstract expressionism; Biography
Other titles: 9th Street women
Description: "Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting–not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-892) and index.