Research Catalog

Title

Lee Krasner : living colour / edited by Eleanor Nairne ; interviews by Gail Levin.

Author

Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984,

Publication

• Italy : Printer Trento SrL, [2019]
• London, England : Thames & Hudson Ltd : Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Barbican Art Gallery, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
• Hudson, Suzanne Perling, 1977-
• Levin, Gail, 1948-
• Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, host institution.
• Nairne, Eleanor,
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
• Siegel, Katy,
• Thames and Hudson, publisher.
• Yau, John, 1950-
• Zentrum Paul Klee, host institution.

Description

239 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color); 29 cm

Summary

This monograph accompanies the first European retrospective of the work of Lee Krasner (1908-1984). One of the original abstract expressionists, Krasner's importance has for too long been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. In fact, his death in 1956 marked her renaissance as an artist. Over the course of more than five decades, Krasner continually scrutinized and reinvented her practice, giving her work formidable energy and impact. Her accomplishments began to be recognized toward the end of her life and in 1984 she became one of the few women artists to be given a solo exhibition at MoMA. As Krasner quipped about her belated recognition: "I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent". This volume features an outstanding selection of her most important paintings, collages and drawings, contextualized by photography from the post-war period, an illustrated chronology, and includes an unpublished interview with her biographer Gail Levin. Tracing her evolution as an artist--from her earliest self-portraits to the acclaimed 'little image' series, from her 1950s collages to epic painterly canvases--this book offers a vivid impression of one of the most tenacious women artists of the 20th century, whose work and life feels more relevant than ever today.

Alternative Title

Living colour

Subject

• 1900-1999
• ART / General
• Abstract expressionism > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Abstract expressionism
• Abstrakte Malerei
• Aktzeichnung
• Jewish women artists > New York > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Jewish women artists
• Krasner, Lee 1908-1984
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984 > Criticism and interpretation
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984 > Exhibitions
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984 > Interviews
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984 > Themes, motives
• Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
• New York (State) > New York
• Painting, Abstract > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Abstract
• Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, American
• Themes, motives
• United States

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works.
• Interviews.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 30 May to 1 September 2019; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 11 October 2019 to 12 January 2020; Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland, 7 February to 10 May 2020; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 29 May to 6 September 2020.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-231) and index.

Contents

To breathe and be alive / Eleanor Nairne -- Nothing outside nature / Katy Siegel -- Writing Rimbaud on the wall / John Yau -- Present conditional / Suzanne Hudson -- Becoming Lee -- Life drawing -- War service windows -- Little images -- Stable gallery -- Prophecy -- Night journeys -- Primary series -- Palingenesis -- Eleven ways -- Reflections / Gail Levin -- Chronology / Jessica Freeman-Attwood.

ISBN

• 9780500094082
• 050009408X

LCCN

99986657183

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries