Later in March, Penguin releases a new book, Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by art historian Alexander Nemerov. It's a somewhat short biography that focuses on a particular period in the artist's life. Enthusiasts of abstract expressionism might recognise the cover photo, taken for Life magazine and shows Frankenthaler sitting on a painted canvas in her studio on West End Avenue in New York. Frankenthaler, who in the 1950s made a name for herself in the art world of post-war America, was one of the major artists of 20th-century America and had a great influence on contemporary art.
It so happens that I'm still reading Ninth Street Women (see № 25 reading list), about the career of Frankenthaler and her fellow artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell. Its author Mary Gabriel praises Nemerov's new book by saying that his poetic descriptions read ‘like one of Helen’s paintings.’
It so happens that I'm still reading Ninth Street Women (see № 25 reading list), about the career of Frankenthaler and her fellow artists Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell. Its author Mary Gabriel praises Nemerov's new book by saying that his poetic descriptions read ‘like one of Helen’s paintings.’
Cover photo: Gordon Parks, 1957
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
By Alexander Nemerov
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780525560203
Penguin Press
By Alexander Nemerov
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 9780525560203
Penguin Press
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