Recommendations from our site
“Ninth Street Women is about the women who were part of that collection of artists in post-war New York, who had really been written out of art history. When we think of Abstract Expressionism, we think of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko. It’s almost like a string quartet. But this book shines a spotlight on the period and shows that there’s a full orchestra playing, not just those four men. I really loved it, because it wasn’t preachy. It didn’t say, ‘they’ve been overlooked.’ It just told the story of Abstract Expressionism from a really, impeccably well-researched position.” Read more...
Charlotte Mullins, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
-
Leonardo da Vinci
by Kenneth Clark -
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
by Giles Tremlett -
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel
by Ruth Bernard Yeazell -
The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
de Kooning: An American Master
by Annalyn Swan & Mark Stevens -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner
