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Author Peiffer, Prudence, author.

Title The Slip : the New York City street that changed American art forever / Prudence Peiffer.

Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
©2023
1 hold on first copy returned of 9 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  709.747 PEIFFER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  709.73 PEI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  709.73 PEI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  709.73 PEI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  709.747 PEIFFER    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - New Materials  974.71 PEI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  709.747 PEIFFER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  974.71 PEIFFER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  709.73 PE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary "A group portrait of artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, Jack Youngerman, and the street they all called home, Coenties Slip in the 1950s and 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-396) and index.
Contents Part I. Before. The Slip ; The French prelude -- Part II. Arrivals. Ellsworth Kelly ; Robert Indiana ; Jack Youngerman and Delphine Seyrig ; Agnes Martin ; Lenore Tawney ; James Rosenquist -- Part III. Getting to work. The nature of it ; Money ; Structure ; Auditions ; First words ; Sixteen Americans and two Frenchmen ; Dark river ; Simple things ; The American dream ; Pop will eat itself -- Part IV. Departures. A delicate city ; Delphine and Jack ; Lenore ; Ellsworth ; James ; Robert ; Agnes -- Afterword. Collective solitude.
Subject Indiana, Robert, 1928-2018.
Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-2015.
Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004.
Rosenquist, James, 1933-2017.
Tawney, Lenore.
Youngerman, Jack, 1926-2020.
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Artists' studios -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Coenties Slip (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Artists. (OCoLC)fst00817559
Artists' studios. (OCoLC)fst00817698
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Peiffer, Prudence. Slip New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] 9780063097223 (DLC) 2023013719
ISBN 9780063097209 (hardcover)
0063097206 (hardcover)
9780063097216 (paperback)
0063097214 (paperback)
9780063097223 (ebook)
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