The loft generation : from the de Koonings to Twombly : portraits and sketches, 1942-2011

Schloss, Edith 1919-2011 (author.). Venturini, Mary, (editor.).

Summary: "A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780374190088
ISBN: 0374190089
Physical Description: print
xxi, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / by Jacob Burkhardt -- Introduction / by Mira Schor -- New York. Prologue ; Life in the lofts ; An avalanche of paint ; Willem de Kooning ; Galleries and the Club ; New music, new poetry ; Critics and artists -- Italy. Italy with the family, 1950-1951 ; Return to Italy.