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Author Tucker, Marcia.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations
Note Includes index.
Print version record.
Contents Prologue; 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 by liza lou; author's acknowledgments; editor's acknowledgments; index; credits.
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. Her own new ways of thinking led her to take principled stands that have changed the way art museums consider contemporary art. As curator of painting and sc.
Subject Tucker, Marcia.
Tucker, Marcia.
Tucker, Marcia. (OCoLC)fst00003819
Art museum curators -- United States -- Biography.
Art critics -- United States -- Biography.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
Art critics. (OCoLC)fst00815508
Art museum curators. (OCoLC)fst00815624
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Electronic books.
Added Author Lou, Liza, 1969-
Other Form: Print version: Tucker, Marcia. Short life of trouble. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008 9780520257009 (DLC) 2008013976 (OCoLC)217263425
ISBN 9780520942196 (electronic bk.)
0520942191 (electronic bk.)
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