Joan Marter
Joan Marter is Board of Governors Professor of Art History, Rutgers University.
Marter, Joan
Marter, Joan
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Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Before the interview began, Sandler mentioned that if he were choosing artists (now) for his first book, The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism, he would add five artists—one of them Lee Krasner.
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.68-70
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00244.006
Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Although art critics and historians have been writing about Abstract Expressionism for more than sixty years, most of the women involved continue to be marginalized. Many writers have refused to acknowledge that these women artists of the 1940s and 1950s could be innovators, and certain curators and critics have simply ignored them while continuing to focus attention on male members of the group....
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.18-29
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00244.002
Description: Women of Abstract Expressionism
Joan Marter (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00244
The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first fully American modern art movement. Though the contributions of these women were central to American art of the twentieth century, their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts.

Women of Abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey. Color reproductions emphasize the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of the movement, and this book features biographies of more than forty artists, offering insight into their lives and work. Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, concerns, and legacies of women in Abstract Expressionism, shedding light on their unique experiences. This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these important artists and offers keen new reflections on their work and the movement as a whole.

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Author
Joan Marter (Editor)
Print publication date June 2016 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300208429
EISBN 9780300261745
Illustrations 185
Print Status in print