Ninth Street Women von Mary Gabriel

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

Fünf Frauen revolutionieren die moderne Kunstwelt im Nachkriegsamerika in dieser bereichernden, grosszügigen und üppigen wahren Geschichte eines Finalisten für den National Book Award und den Pulitzer-Preis. Inmitten der turbulentesten sozialen und politischen Zeit der modernen Geschichte ist "Ninth Street Women" die leidenschaftliche, wilde, manchmal tragische und immer aufregende Chronik von fünf Frauen, die es wagten, in die von Männern dominierte Welt der abstrakten Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts einzutreten – nicht als Musen, sondern als Künstlerinnen. Aus ihren kalten Lofts, in denen sie arbeiteten, tranken, kämpften und liebten, öffneten diese Pionierinnen die Tür zur Kunstwelt für sich selbst und unzählige andere, die folgen sollten. Mutig und unbezwingbar war Lee Krasner eine aufrührerische Führerin unter den Künstlern, lange bevor sie Teil des ersten Promi-Paares der modernen Kunstwelt wurde, indem sie Jackson Pollock heiratete. Elaine de Kooning, deren brillanter Verstand und unvergleichlicher Charme sie zum emotionalen Zentrum der New York School machten, nutzte ihre Werke und Worte, um eine Brücke zwischen der Avantgarde und einem Publikum zu schlagen, das abstrakte Kunst als Schwindel verachtete. Grace Hartigan gab furchtlos das Leben als Hausfrau und Mutter in New Jersey auf, um Ruhm als eine der mutigsten Malerinnen ihrer Generation zu erlangen. Joan Mitchell, deren notorisch harte Fassade eine verletzliche Künstlerin verbarg, entkam einer privilegierten, aber emotional schädlichen Kindheit in Chicago, um ihre leidenschaftliche Vision in prächtigen Leinwänden zu verwirklichen. Und Helen Frankenthaler, die schöne Tochter einer prominenten New Yorker Familie, wählte den schwierigen Weg des kreativen Lebens. Ihr Risiko zahlte sich aus: Mit dreiundzwanzig schuf sie ein Werk, das so originell war, dass es eine neue Malerei-Schule ins Leben rief. Diese Frauen veränderten die amerikanische Kunst und Gesellschaft, indem sie den vorherrschenden sozialen Kodex zerrissen und ihn durch eine Doktrin der Befreiung ersetzten. In "Ninth Street Women" erzählt die gefeierte Autorin Mary Gabriel eine bemerkenswerte und inspirierende Geschichte über die Kraft von Kunst und Künstlern, die nicht nur das Nachkriegsamerika, sondern auch die Zukunft prägten.