The paintings of Joan Mitchell
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The paintings of Joan Mitchell
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with University of California Press, c2002
Available at 9 libraries
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 20 - September 29 2002 and at 3 other institution
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank abstract expressionist painters. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts, while only Lee Krasner stands as a possible rival among her female counterparts. This illustrated volume accompanies an exhibition that spans Mitchell's entire career, from early works of 1951 until the year of her death. This book includes a wealth of paintings, both intimate and grand in scale, that reveal Mitchell's fierce dedication to her art and reflect both the struggles and the artistic triumphs she achieved with her distinctive vision of abstract expressionism. Jane Livingston draws on the artist's personal papers, including her journals and extensive correspondence, to provide an illuminating interpretation of the artist and her work. Linda Nochlin, who was a friend of Mitchell, discusses the artist's experience working in a field dominated by men. A third text by Whitney Museum of American Art curator Yvette Lee explores a distinctive and little-known suite of paintings entitled "La Grande Vallee", created in 1983-84.
This book includes an exhibition history; an extensive artist bibliography of relat
Table of Contents
FOREWORD Maxwell L. Anderson The Paintings of Joan Mitchell Jane Livingston A Rage to Paint: Joan Mitchell and the Issue of Femininity Linda Nochlin "Beyond Life and Death": Joan Mitchell's Grande Vallee Suite Yvette Y. Lee PLATES WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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