TY - BOOK ID - 40264732 TI - Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art PY - 2018 SN - 9780316226189 0316226181 PB - New York Little, Brown and Company DB - UniCat KW - Abstract expressionism KW - Art, Modern KW - Artists KW - Women artists KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Abstract expressionism. KW - Art, Modern. KW - Women artists. KW - Artists, Architects, Photographers. KW - Women. KW - Krasner, Lee, KW - De Kooning, Elaine. KW - Hartigan, Grace. KW - Mitchell, Joan, KW - Frankenthaler, Helen, KW - 1900-1999 KW - United States KW - Art KW - biographies [documents] KW - vrouw in de kunst KW - abstract expressionisme KW - Hartigan, Grace KW - Frankenthaler, Helen KW - Kooning, de, Elaine KW - Krasner, Lee KW - Mitchell, Joan KW - Painting, Abstract KW - Women painters KW - Painting, American KW - 75.038 KW - Krasner, Lee (Lena) 1908-1984 (°Brooklyn, New York, Verenigde Staten) KW - Mitchell, Joan 1926-1992 (°Chicago, Verenigde Staten) KW - de Kooning, Elaine 1918-1989 (°New York, Verenigde Staten) KW - Hartigan, Grace 1922-2008 (°Newark, Verenigde Staten) KW - Frankenthaler, Helen 1928-2011 (°New York, Verenigde Staten) KW - Schilderkunst ; 20ste eeuw ; Abstract Expressionisme KW - Vrouwelijke kunstenaars KW - Painting, Modern KW - Washington Color School (Group of artists) KW - Affichistes (Group of artists) KW - Fluxus (Group of artists) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) KW - Zero (Group of artists) KW - Abstract painting KW - Non-objective painting KW - Painting, Non-objective KW - Expressionism (Art) KW - Art informel KW - Painters KW - Schilderkunst ; 1950 - 2000 KW - Frankenthaler, H. KW - Kooning, Elaine de KW - Krasner, Lenore, KW - Pollock, Lee Krasner, KW - Hartigan, George, KW - biographies [literary works] KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40264732 AB - "Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future"--Jacket. ER -