The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 - Hardcover

Schloss, Edith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374190089 ISBN 13: 9780374190088

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021

Synopsis

A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942–2011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the painters, poets, and musicians who were part of the postwar movements and about her life as an artist in New York and later in Italy, where she continued to paint and write until her death in 2011.

Schloss was born in Germany and moved to New York City during World War II. She became part of a thriving community of artists and intellectuals that included Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, John Cage, and Frank O’Hara. She married the photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt. She was both a working artist and an incisive critic, and was a candid and gimlet-eyed witness of the close-knit community that was redefining the world of art. In Italy she spent time with Giorgio Morandi, Cy Twombly, Meret Oppenheim, and Francesca Woodman.

In The Loft Generation, Schloss creates a rare and irreplaceable up-close record of an era of artistic innovation and the colorful characters who made it happen. There is no other book like it. Her canny observations are indispensable reading for all critics and researchers of this vital period in American art.

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About the Authors

Edith Schloss (1919–2011) was an observant member of the abstract expressionist movement and the New York School. She created paintings, assemblages, collages, watercolors, and drawings and worked as an art critic and writer until her death. Her paintings were shown in galleries all over the world and are in many prominent collections, and her writing has appeared in ARTNews, the International Herald Tribune, Art in America, and many other publications.

Mary Venturini was Edith Schloss’s editor for more than twenty years at Wanted in Rome, a magazine for expats in Rome that she cofounded in 1985.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374190089
• ISBN 13: 9780374190088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Venturini Mary