Research Catalog

Title

The slip : the New York City street that changed American art forever / Prudence Peiffer.

Author

Peiffer, Prudence

Publication

• New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xx, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art." -- inside front jacket flap.
• "A group portrait of artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, Jack Youngerman, and the street they all called home, Coenties Slip in the 1950s and 1960s"--

Subject

• Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018
• Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015
• Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004
• Rosenquist, James, 1933-2017
• Tawney, Lenore
• Youngerman, Jack, 1926-2020
• 1900-1999
• Artists > United States > Biography
• Artists' studios > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Artistes > États-Unis > Biographies
• Ateliers d'artiste > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Artists
• Artists' studios
• Manners and customs
• Coenties Slip (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• New York (N.Y.) > Mœurs et coutumes
• New York (State) > New York
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biographies
• History

Note

• "Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman" -- Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-396) and index.

Contents

Part I. Before. The Slip ; The French prelude -- Part II. Arrivals. Ellsworth Kelly ; Robert Indiana ; Delphine Seyrig and Jack Youngerman ; Agnes Martin ; Lenore Tawney ; James Rosenquist -- Part III. Getting to work. The nature of it ; Money ; Structure ; Auditions ; First words ; Sixteen Americans and two Frenchmen ; Dark river ; Simple things ; The American dream ; Pop will eat itself -- Part IV. Departures. A delicate city ; Delphine and Jack ; Lenore ; Ellsworth ; James ; Robert ; Agnes -- Afterword. Collective solitude.

ISBN

• 9780063097209
• 0063097206
• 9780063097216
• 0063097214
• 9780063097223 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2023013718
• 99996183806
• 40031914171

OCLC

• on1350079811
• 1350079811
• SCSB-14615409

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries