Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Peiffer, Prudence, author.

Title:

The Slip : the New York City street that changed American art forever / Prudence Peiffer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]

Description:

xx, 411 pages, 16 plates (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary:

"A group portrait of artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, [and] Jack Youngerman, and the street they all called home--Coenties Slip--in the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018.

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015.

Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004.

Rosenquist, James, 1933-2017.

Tawney, Lenore.

Youngerman, Jack, 1926-2020.

Artists -- United States -- Biography.

Artists' studios -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.

Coenties Slip (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.

Other Title:

New York City street that changed American art forever

Street that changed American art forever

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part I. Before. The Slip ; The French prelude -- Part II. Arrivals. Ellsworth Kelly ; Robert Indiana ; Jack Youngerman and Delphine Seyrig ; Agnes Martin ; Lenore Tawney ; James Rosenquist -- Part III. Getting to work. The nature of it ; Money ; Structure ; Auditions ; First words ; Sixteen Americans and two Frenchmen ; Dark river ; Simple things ; The American dream ; Pop will eat itself -- Part IV. Departures. A delicate city ; Delphine and Jack ; Lenore ; Ellsworth ; James ; Robert ; Agnes -- Afterword. Collective solitude.

LCCN:

2023013718

ISBN:

9780063097209

Other Number:

1350079811

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

1028596

# Local items in:

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# System items in:

2

Call Number:

709.73 Peiffer