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- E-bokEngelska, 2023
285 kr
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The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art.Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film. This remarkable biography, as transformative as the artists it illuminates, questions the very concept of a group or movement, as it spotlights the Slips eclectic mix of gender and sexual orientation, abstraction and Pop, experimental film, painting, and sculpture, assemblage and textile works. Brought together not by the tenets of composition or technique, nor by philosophy or politics, the artists cultivated a scene at the Slip defined by a singular spirit of community and place. They drew lasting inspiration from one another, but perhaps even more from where they called home, and the need to preserve the solitude its geography fostered. Despite Coenties Slips obscurity, the entire history of Manhattan was inscribed into its cobblestonesone of the first streets and central markets of the new colony, built by enslaved people, with revolutionary meetings at the tavern just down Pearl Street; named by Herman Melville in Moby Dick and site of the boom and bust of the citys maritime industry; and, in the artistss own time, a development battleground for Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. The Slips history is entwined with that of the artists and their arteclectic and varied work that was made from the wreckage of the citys many former lives.An ambitious and singular account of a time, a place, and a group of extraordinary people, The Slip investigates the importance of community, and makes an argument for how we are shaped by it, and how it in turns shapes our work. - LjudbokEngelska, 2023
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Longlisted for the National Book Award · A New York Times Notable Book of the Year · Winner of the New York City Book Award · Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award · Shortlistedfor the Plutarch Award for Best Biography · Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize · Finalist for the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award at Interlochen
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there.
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art.
Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film. This remarkable biography, as transformative as the artists it illuminates, questions the very concept of a “group†or “movement,†as it spotlights the Slip’s eclectic mix of gender and sexual orientation, abstraction and Pop, experimental film, painting, and sculpture, assemblage and textile works. Brought together not by the tenets of composition or technique, nor by philosophy or politics, the artists cultivated a scene at the Slip defined by a singular spirit of community and place. They drew lasting inspiration from one another, but perhaps even more from where they called home, and the need to preserve the solitude its geography fostered. Despite Coenties Slip’s obscurity, the entire history of Manhattan was inscribed into its cobblestones—one of the first streets and central markets of the new colony, built by enslaved people, with revolutionary meetings at the tavern just down Pearl Street; named by Herman Melville in Moby Dick and site of the boom and bust of the city’s maritime industry; and, in the artists’s own time, a development battleground for Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. The Slip’s history is entwined with that of the artists and their art—eclectic and varied work that was made from the wreckage of the city’s many former lives.
An ambitious and singular account of a time, a place, and a group of extraordinary people, The Slip investigates the importance of community, and makes an argument for how we are shaped by it, and how it in turns shapes our work.
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
860 kr
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A revelatory monograph on the groundbreaking artist at the forefront of Pop art, assemblage, and hard-edge painting and sculpture Robert Indiana is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, his bold work explored themes of American identity, personal narrative, and the power of color, form, and language. Known for his contributions to Pop art, assemblage, sculpture, and hard-edge painting, Indiana was deeply attuned to the historical, linguistic, and psychological structures that have shaped America’s identity. His transformation of words and numbers he personally identified with into universally legible symbols resonates across generations of artists and audiences who followed him. Robert Indiana: An American Icon is a comprehensive survey of his life and career. Created in close collaboration with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative, this landmark volume invites readers to rediscover Indiana through more than 450 career-spanning images of his paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, along with rare archival materials and a facsimile of Indiana’s handwritten journals with sketches.A foreword by Simon Salama-Caro, a longtime steward of Indiana’s work, provides personal reflections on the artist. A revelatory suite of essays by three leading art historians offers insights into his work and legacy. Prudence Peiffer focuses on Indiana’s investigation of American identity and his innovative use of language in art. Richard Meyer’s text delves into codification and layering in the work of Indiana, examining what the inclusion of language allowed him, as a gay artist, to express, and the ambiguous ways it echoes the encoded knowledge and necessary indirection of queerness in the mid-century. Robert Pincus-Witten’s historic essay explores how Indiana transcended categories such as Pop art and assemblage, while examining his time on New York’s Coenties Slip, a creative hub for artists such as Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack Youngerman. Also featuring an example of the artist’s own writing alongside two historic interviews, this book offers a chance to hear directly from a celebrated artist whose influence still resonates today.This monograph traces Indiana’s journey from his years in Coenties Slip – where he forged a visual language – through to the decades he spent on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine, producing some of his most introspective work. While Indiana is widely known for his Love image, created in 1964, this book uncovers the deeper dimensions of his practice, revealing an artist whose work challenged the idealized image of the American Dream.Meticulously produced, the book includes previously unpublished materials, offering a fuller understanding of Indiana’s legacy. With color plates of career-spanning work, an insert facsimile of the artist’s handwritten journals, a sweeping illustrated chronology, and expansive gatefolds, Robert Indiana: An American Icon is a reintroduction to a vital American voice, seen in full.
