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Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe
Three Artists Modernism and the Art of Hesse Krasner and O'Keeffe - Three Women Author:Anne Middleton Wagner This original and sharply obser-vant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American modernism: the avant-garde of the 1920s,... more » the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s, and the modernist redefinition undertaken in the 1960s. Their artistic contributions were invaluable, Wagner demonstrates, as well as hard-won. She also shows that the fact that these artists were womenthe main element linking the threeis as much the index of difference among their art and experience as it is a passkey to what they share.« less