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Lee Krasner: A Biography
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The first full length account of Lee Krasner’s colourful life
In Gail Levin’s riveting biography, Lee Krasner emerges as a significant artist who richly deserves her place in the 20th century’s cultural lexicon. Drawing on new sources and numerous personal interviews – including with Krasner herself – Levin has created a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant woman, and in so doing recovers Krasner’s voice and allows us to understand how her life intersected with and informed her art.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (23 May 2019), Thames and Hudson Ltd |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 560 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 050029528X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0500295281 |
| Dimensions | 12.9 x 3.5 x 19.8 cm |
by Suetonius
Bland, boring, biased. You should rather read “Ninth Street Women” by Mary Gabriel.
by SusannahB
In this interesting and illuminating biography of the artist Lee Krasner, Gail Levin projects her subject onto centre stage and out from the shadow of her husband, Jackson Pollock, about whom so much more has been written. Gail Levin, who is Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies and Women’s Studies at the Baruch College of the City University of New York, first met Krasner in the early 1970s and interviewed her numerous times during the following years, and these interviews and her meticulous research of her subject’s life and times have enabled Ms Levin to produce this very attractively presented and very informative biography which is filled with photographs of Krasner, her family and friends, and also has a whole section devoted to coloured photographs of the painter’s work. I found this an enjoyable and enlightening read and welcomed to opportunity to learn more about Lee Krasner’s life and work and also more about the people around her.
4 Stars.