Ebook: New art city: Manhattan at mid-century

In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists-Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them-who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric expressionist Joan Mitchell, and the adventuresome realist Fairfield Porter, as well the writers, critics, and patrons who rounded out the artists'world. Brilliantly describing the intellectual crosscurrents of the time as well as the genius of dozens of artists, New Art City From the Trade Paperback edition.;The painter and the city -- Climate of New York -- 1. Manhattan geography -- 2. The dialectical imagination -- 3. The philosopher king -- 4. "I condemn and affirm, say no and say yes" -- Some versions of Romanticism -- 5. Heroes -- 6. A splendid modesty -- 7. Pastorals -- A grand collage -- 8. Joseph Cornell in Manhattan -- 9. Welders and others -- 10. From readymades to cutouts -- The artist and the public -- 11. Going to the modern -- 12. Making history -- Pop theater -- Teachers -- The empirical imagination -- 15. Beginning again -- 16. Maine, Marfa, and Manhattan.