Cheap Rents... and de Kooning: The downtown art world New York, 1957-63 - Softcover

Cohen, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3869309032 ISBN 13: 9783869309033

Verlag: Steidl Verlag, 2016

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Cheap Rents… and de Kooning revisits the New York downtown art scene between 1957 and 1963, when the Tenth street galleries were the center of the art world and inexpensive lofts were available. John Cohen took a series of the artist’s haunts―among them the Cedar Tavern, the Club and the Tanager Gallery―and created a definitive photographic impression of a hell-bent, headstrong time. De Kooning’s studio was in the middle of the bloc. Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists, Performance Art and the Happenings were all happening there along with the Beat Generation. It was the hatchery of new ideas and avant-garde thinking in downtown Manhattan.

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John Cohen, born in 1932 in New York, is a photographer, filmmaker and musician. An MFA graduate from Yale University School of Fine Arts, Cohen was active in the artistic circles of late-1950s and early-1960s New York, and worked with Robert Frank on his film “Pull My Daisy” (1959). Steidl has published Cohen’s Past Present Peru (2010), The High and Lonesome Sound. The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb (2012) and Here and Gone. Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie & the 1960s (2014).

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Cheap rents … and de Kooning revisits the New York down - town art scene between 1957 and 1963, when the 10th Street galleries were the center of the art world and inexpensive lofts were still available. Living in this dynamic neighborhood, John Cohen photographed a series of its famous and infamous artists’ haunts?among them the legendary Cedar Bar, the Artists’ Club and the Tanager Gallery?creating a definitive impression of a hell-bent, headstrong era. De Kooning’s studio was in the midst of this avant-garde bloc, where Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Performance Art and Happenings all ambitiously made their mark alongside the Beat Generation. ? Cohen’s provocative arrangements of high-contrast lights and darks had as many undercurrents as a Rorschach test. He discovered in these images a maximum of animation?whether a quickly smiling face or a dramatically outstretched hand?a snapshot rhetoric with an underlying emblematic power. Jed Perl, New Art City

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• Verlag: Steidl Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3869309032
• ISBN 13: 9783869309033
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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