Hardcover
1996 · Berkeley
by Wagner, Anne Middleton
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG-/VG (light foxing to block edges, pages are clean). Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, white and burdundy dust jacket with color illustrations, xix, 346 pp, illustrated in bw and color. Art historian Wagner looks at the imagery and careers of three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American modernism: the avant-garde of the 1920s, the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s, and the modernist redefinition undertaken in the 1960s. Their artistic contributions were invaluable, Wagner demonstrates, as well as hard-won. She also shows that the fact that these artists were women--the main element linking the three--is as much the index of difference among their art and experience as it is a passkey to what they share.--From publisher description. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-330) and index.
(Inventory #: 176675)