Research Catalog

Title

The women of Atelier 17 : modernist printmaking in midcentury New York / Christina Weyl.

Author

Weyl, Christina

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, host institution.
• Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, host institution.

Description

xi, 284 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists - Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson, and Anne Ryan - who bent the technical rules of printmaking and blazed new aesthetic terrain with their etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. She reveals how Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists' engagement with modernist styles, providing a forum for extraordinary achievements that shaped postwar sculpture, fiber art, neo-Dadaism, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Atelier 17 fostered solidarity among women pursuing modernist forms of expression, providing inspiration for feminist collective action in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women of Atelier 17 also identifies for the first time nearly 100 women, many previously unknown, who worked at the studio, and provides incisive illustrated biographies of selected artists.

Subjects

• Women printmakers
• Prints, American
• History
• 1900-1999
• 21.32 history of the graphic arts
• 20.10 art and society: general
• United States
• Atelier 17
• Atelier 17 History
• Women printmakers > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Prints, American > New York (State) > New York > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-272) and index (pages [275]-284).

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: rethinking Atelier 17 -- "The cell of a revolution" -- Inky fingers: digging into printmaking -- Material matters: the gender of technique -- The epic print -- Circulating modernist prints -- Conclusion: the legacy of Atelier 17 -- APpendix A: Atelier 17's female members, 1940-1955 -- Appendix B: selected artist biographies -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780300238501
• 0300238509

OCLC

• on1055262500
• SCSB-9431628

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library