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This book explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that “anything can be art.”
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1
Visual Arts Faculty at Douglas College
Interview with Geoffrey Hendricks
Interview with Roy Lichtenstein
Part 2
Alice Aycock
Loretta Dunkelman
Kirsten Kraa
Frances Tannenbaum Kuehn
Linda Lindroth
Marion Munk
Rita Myers
Mimi Smith
Joan Snyder
Ann Tsubota
Jackie Winsor
Interview with Alice Aycock
Interview with Letty Lou Eisenhauer
Interview with Mimi Smith
Part 3
The Women Artists Series at Douglass College
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at 21 Years
Exhibitions at the Walters Hall Art Gallery, Douglass College
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
About the author
JOAN M. MARTER is Editor-in-Chief of Woman's Art Journal since 2006. She is the author of numerous books, exhibition catalogues and articles. Titles include Women of Abstract Expressionism (Yale 2017) and Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-63 (Rutgers 1999). Dr. Marter is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers, where she taught Art History for 38 years.
Summary
Explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that “anything can be art”.
