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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Lee Krasner & Norman Lewis – From the Margins
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year | 2014 |
| Cover | Paperback with flaps |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-300-20649-4 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Weight | 480 g |
| More | |
| Author(s) | Norman L. Kleeblatt, Stephen Brown |
| Contributors | Lisa Saltzman, Mia L. Bagneris |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | The Jewish Museum, New York |
| Article ID | art-59865 |
This captivating book examines two modernist painters: Lee Krasner (1908–1984) and Norman Lewis (1909–1979) whose important contributions to Abstract Expressionism have long been underappreciated.
During their lifetimes, and still to this day, Krasner and Lewis received little acknowledgment as major participants in the mainstream Abstract Expressionist scene in New York. Rather, Krasner was mainly known as the wife of Jackson Pollock and Lewis, as an African American artist, struggled for recognition.
Krasner's and Lewis's works from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement share many qualities, including pictographic iconographies, allusions to writing, relatively small scales, and allover patterning. From the Margins therefore imagines a kind of conversation between these two artists, juxtaposing works from each to encourage visual and conceptual dialogues. An introductory essay delves into the challenges Krasner and Lewis faced in an artistic community dominated by white men, mainly concerning issues of identity, otherness, and marginalization in postwar American abstraction.
Reasserting the influence and talent of these two significant artists, this book offers a vital and much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on modern art.
