Gail Levin

Lee Krasner

A Biography

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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 life, distinguished art historian Gail Levin shows that Lee Krasner was a significant artist who deserves her place in the twentieth century's cultural lexicon and artistic pantheon.During the Great Depression, Krasner supported herself painting murals for the WPA, was called a Trotskyite for speaking out at the Artists Union, and got arrested for demonstrating on behalf of workers' rights. Her life changed in 1945 when she began her troubled marriage with Jackson Po… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-201779-6
EAN: 9780062017796
Produktnummer: 7713652
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 884 S.
Ausstattung: Grossdruck-Ausg.

Über den Autor

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.