Women of Abstract Expressionism

216 Pages, 10.00 x 12.00 in, 138 color + 50 b-w illus. Edited by Joan Marter Introduction by Gwen F. Chanzit Contributions by Robert Hobbs, Ellen G. Landau and Susan Landauer Other primary creator Irving Sandler The celebrated survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their workThe artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s and has been recognized as the first fully American modern art movement. Though the contributions of these women were central to American art of the twentieth century, their work has not received the same critical attention as that of their male counterparts. Women of Abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey. Lavishly illustrated with full-color plates emphasizing the expressive freedom of dir