Eight begin : artists' memories of starting out /

Eight begin : artists' memories of starting out /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Waterville, ME : Colby Museum of Art, 2014.
Description:	116 pages: illustrations, some of which are in color, 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bladen, Ronald, -- 1918-1988. Dodd, Lois, -- 1927- Drummond, Sally Hazelet, -- 1924- Held, Al, -- 1928-2005. Katz, Alex, -- 1927- King, William, -- 1925-2015. Pearlstein, Philip, -- 1924- Sugarman, George, -- 1912-1999. Bladen, Ronald, -- 1918-1988. Dodd, Lois, -- 1927- Held, Al, -- 1928-2005. Katz, Alex, -- 1927- King, William, -- 1925-2015. Pearlstein, Philip, -- 1924- Sugarman, George, -- 1912-1999. Artists -- United States -- Biography. Artists. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11324010

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Other authors / contributors:	Bladen, Ronald, 1918-1988. Katz, Ada, 1928- editor.
ISBN:	0975299395 9780975299395
Notes:	"Texts by Ronald Bladen, Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, Al Held, Alex Katz, William King, Philip Pearlstein, and George Sugarman. Introduction by Sharon Corwin. Afterword by Vincent Katz."-- Back cover.
Summary:	"It offers an intimate look at the formative years of eight artists who were associated with the 10th Street gallery scene in New York during the 1950s and early 1960s.Published here for the first time, these first-person accounts are based on interviews conducted by Ada Katz in the mid-1970s. Katz was interested in finding out what brought these artists to New York City, what sparked their internal interest in the arts and how they found their way to 10th Street, where a handful of artist-run cooperative galleries provided critical alternatives to the more established commercial galleries uptown. These memoirs make vivid the motivations of eight artists who all went on to have significant careers in New York and beyond. From today's perspective, their stories have important lessons to impart to those who wish to find ways to make art outside the existing mainstream."--Back cover.

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Summary:	Literary Nonfiction. Drama. Texts by Ronald Bladen, Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, Al Held, Alex Katz, William King, Phillip Pearlstein, and George Sugarman. "My first serious artwork started in West Virginia, in the classroom in Wheeling. We stayed there until that packing house went bankrupt, and we went back to Pittsburgh. After we moved back to Pittsburgh when I was eleven or twelve, we moved into a house with all my father's brothers and sisters and my grandmother, and all these people shared three bedrooms. I shared a bedroom with my grandmother and two aunts. That is the time when my interest in making art picked up. It was strange. This family was not cultured, but my father's youngest sister and youngest brother did go to the theater. They had jobs as sales clerks in a downtown drug store. My aunt took me to the theater a couple of times. I became very interested in stage design, and I made my own miniature theater. Looking back, I can't remember where I picked up the information, but I was involved in building a stage to scale, with a lighting system, and designing shows with miniature sets. One of my uncles one night burned down my stage. The house was very small, and my tabletop theater took up too much space, but I have had mixed feelings about my uncles ever since."--Phillip Pearlstein, excerpt
Item Description:	"Texts by Ronald Bladen, Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, Al Held, Alex Katz, William King, Philip Pearlstein, and George Sugarman. Introduction by Sharon Corwin. Afterword by Vincent Katz."-- Back cover.
Physical Description:	116 pages: illustrations, some of which are in color, 23 cm
ISBN:	0975299395 9780975299395