Joan Mitchell Lady Painter

Name: Joan Mitchell Lady Painter
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ISBN: 9780375414374

ISBN-10: 0375414371

ISBN-13: 9780375414374

Edition: 2011

Authors: Patricia Albers

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A full-scale biography-the first-of the dazzling, outrageous, mythic Abstract Expressionist artist considered today one of the major American painters of the latter half of the twentieth century. Joan Mitchell-Midwestern steel heiress; ice-skating champion-came of age as an artist on New Yorkrs"s Tenth Street in the 1950s; knocking back beers at the Cedar Bar with de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, et al.; carousing in the Hamptons with Frank Ors"Hara, Saul Steinberg, Helen Frankenthaler; hanging out with hip cats at the Five Spot; and forging her own path in an art world convinced that women couldnrs"t paint. InJoan Mitchell,Patricia Albers brilliantly reconstructs Mitchellrs"s large and reckless…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction


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


Vï¿½theuil



La Tour



Vinnie and Thea



La Grande Vallï¿½e



A Few Days



Ici


Notes


Index