Joan Mitchell : lady painter : a life / Patricia Albers.
2011
ND237.M58 A85 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Joan Mitchell : lady painter : a life / Patricia Albers.
Author
Albers, Patricia.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780375414374
0375414371
0375414371
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 514 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
ND237.M58 A85 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.13 B
Summary
"Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead," said a New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell in the 1950s. She was a steel heiress from the Midwest (her grandfather built Chicago's bridges and worked for Andrew Carnegie). She was a daughter of the American Revolution--Anglo-Saxon, Republican, Episcopalian. She was tough, disciplined, courageous, dazzling, and went up against the masculine art world at its most entrenched, made her way in it, and disproved their notion that women couldn't paint. This is the first full-scale biography of the abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Biographer Patricia Albers reconstructs the painter's large, impassioned, messy, reckless life: her growing prominence as an artist, her marriage and affairs, her friendships with poets and painters, her extraordinary work.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Chicago. Jimmie and Marion ; Satin curtains redux ; The lake ; War and peace ; Taking from everybody
New York. Tenth Street ; Savage debut ; The hurricane ; Hudson River day line ; To the harbormaster
Paris. Seeing something through
Vétheuil. La Tour ; Vinnie and Thea ; La Grande Vallée ; A few days ; Ici.
New York. Tenth Street ; Savage debut ; The hurricane ; Hudson River day line ; To the harbormaster
Paris. Seeing something through
Vétheuil. La Tour ; Vinnie and Thea ; La Grande Vallée ; A few days ; Ici.