Marcia Marcus

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I Paint What I Like

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

589 kr

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Headstrong and wry, Marcia Marcus (1928–2025) was a fiercely original artist whose work challenges typical understanding of post-war American art. Rejecting mainstream abstraction, Marcus spent five decades painting what compelled her: languorous male nudes, parenthood, great style—subjects her peers rarely explored—all rendered in her distinctive cool and poised hand. Undaunted by New York’s male-dominated art world, she was a vivid presence in downtown Manhattan and Provincetown, pioneering as one of the first women to stage a Happening. Through decades of self-portraiture, she boldly affirmed her own creative voice and upended narrow expectations of gender with wit and defiance.This volume illuminates Marcus’s multifaceted significance: innovative artist of post-war New York, creator of radically assertive self-portraiture, and essential forerunner of figurative painting today.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-21
Mått240 x 267 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagD Giles Ltd
ISBN9781917273329

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Brandon Brame Fortune is chief curator emerita, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.Debra Lennard is an independent scholar and associate curator, Hayward Gallery Touring, London.Melissa Rachleff is clinical professor in the Visual Arts Administration Program at NYU Steinhardt, and curator of Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, Grey Art Museum, NYU, 2017.

Preface by Jane Barrell Yadav and Kate PrendergastAcknowledgements'The Queen of Tenth Street Painters': Marcia Marcus and Downtown New York by Melissa Rachleff Her Own Kind of Painter: Marcia Marcus's Life in Art by Debra LennardMarcia Marcus and the Art of the Portrait by Brandon Brame FortuneArtist Statements by Mimi Gross, Martha Edelheit, Chantal Joffe, Alex KatzNotesExhibition HistorySelected BibliographyIndexPhotography Credits