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

By Griselda Pollock

Book Overview

This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of New York abstract painting. Providing readings of paintings by Krasner and examining images of Pollock and Frankenthaler at work, it builds a bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe.

• 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"