Synopsis "Lee Krasner: A Biography"
In Gail Levin’s riveting biography, Lee Krasner emerges as a significant artist who richly deserves her place in the 20th century’s cultural lexicon. Drawing on new sources and numerous personal interviews – including with Krasner herself – Levin has created a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant woman, and in so doing recovers Krasner’s voice and allows us to understand how her life intersected with and informed her art.Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Beyond the Pale: A Brooklyn Childhood, 1908–21 • 2. Breaking Away:Determined to Be an Artist, 1922–25 • 3. Art School: Cooper Union, 1926–28 • 4.National Academy and First Love, 1928–32 • 5. Enduring the Great Depression, 1932–36• 6. From Politics to Modernism, 1936–39 • 7. Solace in Abstraction, 1940–41 • 8. A NewAttachment: Life with Pollock, 1942–43 • 9. Coping with Peggy Guggenheim, 1943–45• 10. Coming Together: Marriage and Springs, 1945–47 • 11. Triumphs and Challenges,1948–50 • 12. First Solo Show, 1951–52 • 13. Coming Apart, 1953–56 • 14. DualIdentities: Artist and Widow, 1956–59 • 15. A New Alliance, 1959–64 • 16. Recognition,1965–69 • 17. The Feminist Decade, 1970–79 • 18. Retrospective, 1980–84
