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By Muriel O. Murphy

In late summer of 2006, in anticipation of a retrospective of his work at the Morgan Library in New York, Muriel Oxenberg Murphy prepared for publication a short collection of her writings on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1436354773
• ISBN13: 9781436354776
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Great book

Muriel Oxenberg Murphy was one of the main forces introducing abstraction and modern art in America. In her 20's and for 12 years held the position of associate at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York. There she would curate and encourage many of the most important artists of our time: Alexander Calder, Duchamp, Noguchi, Johns, Rauschenberg, etc. An art historian graduated from Barnard, offered with unusual generosity an invaluable point of view that helped further culture at a key moment in American history. This book reads fast, her voice is intimate, fresh, witty... One gets the feeling of peeking at her diary. Her relationship with Julian Schabell,Cecil Hourani, George Soros, Leon Levy, or a rich chapter on her long time friend Saul Steinberg and her daughter Julia; Wille Morris, (Editor of Harpers at the time), and her last companion for 20 years, William Gaddis make this a rare and must-read journey into the life of a fascinating woman and her time.