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 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 Kras… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-184527-7
EAN: 9780061845277
Produktnummer: 11509571
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 576 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D3.0 cm 563 g
Gewicht: 563

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.