The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York

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A well timed reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, specializing in the ladies whose paintings defied gender norms thru novel aesthetic paperwork and techniques

On this essential e book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the ladies whose paintings there complex each modernism and feminism within the Forties and Nineteen Fifties. Weyl specializes in 8 artists—Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson, and Anne Ryan—who bent the technical laws of printmaking and blazed new aesthetic terrain with their etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. She finds how Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print methodology, taste, and scale. It facilitated Girls artists’ engagement with modernist kinds, offering a discussion board for peculiar achievements that formed postwar sculpture, fiber artwork, neo-Dadaism, and the Development and Ornament motion. Atelier 17 fostered team spirit amongst Girls pursuing modernist sorts of expression, offering concept for feminist collective motion within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies. The Girls of Atelier 17 additionally identifies for the primary time just about 100 Girls, many up to now unknown, who labored on the studio, and gives incisive illustrated biographies of decided on artists.

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