Ninth Street women Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art

Mary Gabriel, 1955-

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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Mary Gabriel, 1955- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xvi, 927 pages, 48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-892) and index.
ISBN
9780316226172
9780316226189
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: The Ninth Street Show, New York, May 1951
  • Part 1. 1928-1948
  • Lee
  • 1. Lena, Lenore, Lee
  • 2. The Gathering Storm
  • 3. The End of the Beginning
  • Elaine
  • 4. Marie Catherine Mary Ellen O'Brien Fried's Daughter
  • 5. The Master and Elaine
  • Art in War
  • 6. The Flight of the Artists
  • 7. It Is War, Everywhere, Always
  • 8. Chelsea
  • 9. Intellectual Occupation
  • 10. The High Beam
  • 11. A Light That Blinds, I
  • 12. A Light That Blinds, II
  • The Turning Point
  • 13. It's 1919 Over Again!
  • 14. Awakenings
  • 15. Separate Together
  • 16. Peintres Maudits
  • 17. Lyrical Desperation
  • 18. Death Visits the Kingdom of the Saints
  • 19. The New Arcadia
  • Part 2. 1948-1951
  • Grace
  • 20. The Call of the Wild
  • 21. The Acts of the Apostles, I
  • 22. The Acts of the Apostles, II
  • 23. Fame
  • 24. The Flowering
  • 25. Riot and Risk
  • Helen
  • 26. The Deep End of Wonder
  • 27. The Thrill of It
  • 28. The Puppet Master
  • Joan
  • 29. Painted Poems
  • 30. Mexico to Manhattan via Paris and Prague
  • 31. Waifs and Minstrels
  • Part 3. 1951-1955
  • Oh, to Leave a Trace
  • 32. Coming Out
  • 33. The Perils of Discovery
  • 34. Said the Poet to the Painter
  • 35. Neither by Design nor Definition
  • Discoveries of Heart and Hand
  • 36. Swimming against a Riptide
  • 37. At the Threshold
  • 38. Figures and Speech
  • 39. Refuge
  • 40. A Change of Art
  • 41. Life or Art
  • 42. The Red House
  • Five Women
  • 43. The Grand Girls, I
  • 44. The Grand Girls, II
  • 45. The Grand Girls, III
  • Part 4. 1956-1959
  • The Rise and the Unraveling
  • 46. Embarkation Point
  • 47. Without Him
  • 48. The Gold Rush
  • 49. A Woman's Decision
  • 50. Sputnik, Beatnik, and Pop
  • 51. Bridal Lace and Widow's Weeds
  • 52. Five Paths...
  • 53. ...Forward
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Copyright and Permissions Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index