Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting

by Griselda Pollock

What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?

With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism that either marginalised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526164183
• ISBN13: 9781526164186
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"