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A short life of trouble [ Texto impreso] : forty years in the New York art world / Marcia Tucker ; edited, and with an afterword, by Liza Lou.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, cop. 2008.Description: 215 p., [16] p. de fotografías : il ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520257009
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Contents:
one. 1945-1956 ; two. 1957-1959 ; three. 1960-1962 ; four. 1963-1964 ; five. 1965-1968 ; six. 1969-1970 ; seven. 1970-1974 ; eight. 1974-1976 ; nine. 1977-1980 ; ten. 1980-1983 ; eleven. 1983-1984 ; twelve. 1984-1993 ; thirteen. 1994-1995 ; fourteen. 1997 ; fifteen. 1998-2004 ; afterword / Liza Lou
Note: Incluye fotografías de Marcia Tucker y algunos artistas comisariados. Bibliography: Incluye índice.Summary: "This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time ... As curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney, she organized major exhibitions of the work of Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Tuttle, among others" (solapa anterior)

Incluye fotografías de Marcia Tucker y algunos artistas comisariados.

one. 1945-1956 ; two. 1957-1959 ; three. 1960-1962 ; four. 1963-1964 ; five. 1965-1968 ; six. 1969-1970 ; seven. 1970-1974 ; eight. 1974-1976 ; nine. 1977-1980 ; ten. 1980-1983 ; eleven. 1983-1984 ; twelve. 1984-1993 ; thirteen. 1994-1995 ; fourteen. 1997 ; fifteen. 1998-2004 ; afterword / Liza Lou

"This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time ... As curator of painting and sculpture at the Whitney, she organized major exhibitions of the work of Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Tuttle, among others" (solapa anterior)

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