@article{1389625,
      recid = {1389625},
      author = {Cohen-Solal, Annie, and Goldberger, Paul, and Gottlieb,  Robert,},
      title = {New York mid-century 1945-1965 : art, architecture,  design, dance, theater, nightlife /},
      pages = {399 pages :},
      abstract = {"New York Mid-Century, 1945-1965 is the story of how the  Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar  world in art, architecture, design, and the performing  arts. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as  poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians,  designers, architects, actors, dancers, and choreographers.  Annie Cohen-Solal, a best-selling author whose books  include a biography of kingmaker art dealer Leo Castelli,  brings alive the artistic ferment of those years: the  legendary galleries and watering holes, the landmark  exhibitions and happenings, the influential critics and  collectors, and the artists themselves, from Abstract  Expressionists Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline, to  Color Field artists Frankenthaler, Noland, and Louis, to  Johns and Rauschenberg, to Minimalists Judd and Flavin, to  Pop Artists Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, and Warhol. Pulitzer  Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger guides us  on a tour of the Modernist masterpieces that gave the city  a sleek new profile: Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House, Mies  van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Le Corbusier and Wallace  Harrison's United Nations, Philip Johnson's Four Seasons  restaurant and New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's  Fair, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, Eero  Saarinen's TWA Terminal at Idlewild Airport, and of course,  Lincoln Center, New York's answer to the great piazzas of  the world. He also takes us into the swank shops, offices,  and apartments of the era, the furnishings designed by  Modernist icons from Charles and Ray Eames to Florence  Knoll and George Nelson, and he tantalizes us with the work  of the pioneering advertising executives, graphic  designers, and photographers who gave the period that Mad  Men look. He concludes the section with a lively recounting  of the philosophical battle between the urban planners who  believed in tearing down and building anew (the Robert  Moses camp) and the preservationists who believed in  retaining the character of old neighborhoods (the Jane  Jacobs camp). And finally, Robert Gottlieb, former editor  of The New Yorker and current dance critic of The New York  Observer, invites us to the theater, both on and off  Broadway, to relive the heyday of the musical, from  Carousel to The King and I, from My Fair Lady to West Side  Story, as well as the searing dramas of Williams, Albee,  and Miller, and Joseph Papp's wildly innovative Shakespeare  in the Park productions; to the great jazz clubs of Harlem  and 52nd Street to meet the likes of Miles Davis, Charlie  Parker, Billie Holiday, and Dizzy Gillespie; to the studios  and stages of the dance world, where George Balanchine and  the New York City Ballet were revolutionizing ballet and  Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Paul Taylor,  and Alwin Nikolais were wowing audiences with the purely  American idiom of modern dance; and to the legendary  cabarets and nightclubs, from the Blue Angel and Café  Society Downtown to the Latin Quarter and Copacabana, where  stars as diverse as Pearl Bailey, Barbra Streisand, Mike  Nichols and Elaine May, Harry Belafonte, Carol Burnett, and  Woody Allen got their start. And when all the art exhibits,  plays, revues, and dance performances come to an end, Mr.  Gottlieb treats us to nightcaps at the Stork Club and El  Morocco."--Publisher's description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1389625},
}