Lee Krasner - Couverture souple

Hobbs, Robert Carleton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558592830 ISBN 13 : 9781558592834

Editeur : Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

The first monograph devoted to Lee Krasner's work - it brings to light all the intriguing complexities of her approach to making art

Many of Krasner's male colleagues - including her husband, Jackson Pollock - developed a unique "signature" style that identified them throughout their careers. Krasner, however, experimented with one style after another, from her early geometric abstractions (created while she was one of Hans Hofmann's most talented students), through her large-scale organic images of mid-career, to the hard-edge compositions of her late years. Certain elements recur throughout - most notably, her distinctive sense of colour, her affinity for swelling forms inspired by nature, and her fearlessness in experimenting with new techniques.

Krasner's unwillingness to stick to one style, her readiness to put her career aside to focus on Pollock's, and her feuds with some of the period's most powerful critics all reduced her visibility in the art world. She has been the subject of exhibition catalogs, but this is the first monograph devoted to her work, and it brings to light all the intriguing complexities of her approach to making art. Dr. Robert Hobbs skillfully explores the twists and turns of her career, offering new information and insight about one of the most intriguing painters of the postwar era.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<div> <B>Dr. Robert Hobbs</B>, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Professor of American Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, has taught art history at Florida State, Cornell, and Yale universities, and was director at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. His many publications include <I>Milton Avery</I>, <I>Edward Hopper</I>, and <I>Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years</I>, and he has curated a number of important exhibitions.<BR> </div>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558592830
• ISBN 13: 9781558592834
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible