An important reexamination of two artists whose crucial participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement is often overlooked This captivating book examines two modernist painters-Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Norman Lewis (1909-1979)-whose important contributions to Abstract Expressionism have long been underappreciated. During their lifetimes, and still to this day, Krasner and Lewis received little acknowledgment as major participants in the mainstream Abstract Expressionist scene in New York. Rather, Krasner was ...
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An important reexamination of two artists whose crucial participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement is often overlooked This captivating book examines two modernist painters-Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Norman Lewis (1909-1979)-whose important contributions to Abstract Expressionism have long been underappreciated. During their lifetimes, and still to this day, Krasner and Lewis received little acknowledgment as major participants in the mainstream Abstract Expressionist scene in New York. Rather, Krasner was mainly known as the wife of Jackson Pollock and Lewis, as an African American artist, struggled for recognition. Krasner's and Lewis's works from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement share many qualities, including pictographic iconographies, allusions to writing, relatively small scales, and allover patterning. From the Margins therefore imagines a kind of conversation between these two artists, juxtaposing works from each to encourage visual and conceptual dialogues. An introductory essay delves into the challenges Krasner and Lewis faced in an artistic community dominated by white men, mainly concerning issues of identity, otherness, and marginalization in postwar American abstraction. Reasserting the influence and talent of these two significant artists, this book offers a vital and much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on modern art. Distributed for the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition Schedule: The Jewish Museum, New York (09/12/14-02/01/15)
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VG. Black & decorated paper wraps, French flaps, 96 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2014-2015 exhibition that "brings together the paintings of these two representatives of the New York School, who made significant contributions throughout their unique and compelling approaches to abstract art....The comparison of works by Krasner, a Jewish-American woman, and by Lewis, an African-American man--provides for a fascinating dynamic." (preface) With an introduction by Norman L. Kleeblatt and Stephen Brown, and essays by Lisa Saltzman and Mia L. Bagneris, and many examples of the artists' works.