Word: nevelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helen Frankenthaler, D.F.A., artist. Pauline Kael, Litt.D., movie critic. Louise Nevelson, D.F.A., sculptor...
...years' work in comparative obscurity before Alice Neel-now 64-won some recent recognition as one of the few artists capable of preserving the expressionist portrait as a live form (as in The Family, 1971). If an artist like Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler or Louise Nevelson manages, by prolonged and single-minded concentration on work, to annul the prejudice against women, it is assumed that she has "transcended the limits" of her sexual class. Thus Nevelson's austere and formidable constructions like Black Crescent, in the very act of "escaping" the stereotype, may confirm...
From Flophouse to Gallery. For New York's better-heeled artists, the reaction was straightforward: buy a SoHo building outright, or convert it into a coop. A pioneer of that gambit was Louise Nevelson, who purchased a vacant five-story sanitarium on Spring Street and turned it into a succession of mysterious caves lined with her black, white, gold and Plexiglas constructions. Roy Lichtenstein acquired one vast floor of a bankrupt bank on the Bowery (other floors were taken by Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman). Kenneth Noland bought a storage building; Robert Rauschenberg, a flophouse-cum-church on Lafayette...