Gail levin lee krasner
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Lee Krasner: A Fascinating and Iconic Modernist Master
Art historian and author Gail Levin will be at NMWA to read from and discuss her new biography about painter Lee Krasner.
Sunday, April 3, p.m. Free and open to the public! Book signing follows. No reservations required.
For many years, Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her formidable husband, the renowned Jackson Pollock. Yet at Gail Levin shows, this independent woman of uncompromising talent and fiery genius was a significant artist in her own right well deserving of recognition in the twentieth century’s culture lexicon.
At turns vivid and eye-opening, Lee Krasner: A Biography (William Morrow, ) examines the evolution of a woman whose life was as dramatic and intriguing as her art. Drawing on brand new sources, Levin offers a dynamic, comprehensive portrait of this brilliant woman who grew up an impoverished Jewish girl in Brooklyn and made trouble in the late s and early s as a tough, unreserved, outspoken artist, feminist, and community sympathizer. Deeply insecure, irascible, and stubborn, Krasner was also magnetic, with the “kind of animal energy and voluptuousness we later came to call sex appeal,” said a friend.
In , Krasner married Pollock, a passionate relationship defined by tender
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Extract: Lee Krasner: A Biography
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Lee Krasner
'Rigorous research, deep knowledge of art and cultural history, penetrating analysis and a flair for storytelling bring to life a fully formed Lee Krasner. Those who never knew her will wish they had, and those who did will be amazed'
Helen A. Harrison, Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
'[Draws] on her close personal relationship with the painter and a multitude of interviews … impressively researched'
Spectator
'An insightful, sharply drawn portrait of 20th-century America from a vantage point of a creative woman swept up in a realm of remarkable artistic productivity'
Wall Street Journal
'Compelling Gail Levin has drawn on her close association with Lee Krasner and extensive research to produce a biography that rings fair and true'
Los Angeles Times
'Art historian Gail Levin's Lee Krasner is a quintuple whammy of a biography--the story of a major artist; a description of a notorious marriage; an education in 20th-century art; a gossipy immersion into Bohemian New York; and a settling of scores against those who practiced gender bias'
O, The Oprah Magazine
'Lee Krasner has for a long time been poorly served. She deserves better and she has it here'
Artbookreview
'Unfairly maligned as simply “Mrs Jackson Pollock”, this weighty fir