一本关于一位杰出抽象表现主义画家的生活和作品的新书，现在是20世纪最重要的女性艺术家之一。

本书与李·克拉斯纳(1908 - 1984)作品的**次欧洲回顾展同时出版。作为最早的抽象表现主义画家之一，克拉斯纳的重要性早已被她与杰克逊·波洛克的婚姻所掩盖。事实上，1956年波洛克的去世标志着她作为艺术家的复兴。

在超过50年的时间里，Krasner不断地审视和改造她的艺术创作，赋予她的工作强大的能量和影响。她的成就在她生命的尽头开始得到认可，1984年，她成为为数不多的在现代艺术博物馆举办个展的女性艺术家之一。正如克拉斯纳对自己姗姗来迟的认可所打趣的那样:我是一个女人，犹太人，一个寡妇，一个出色的画家，谢谢你，而且有点太独立了。

本卷展示了她最重要的绘画作品，拼贴画和绘画作品，以及战后时期的摄影背景，插图年表，以及与她的传记作家盖尔莱文的未发表的访谈。追溯她作为艺术家的演变，从她最早的自画像到广受好评的小图像系列，从她20世纪50年代的拼贴画到史诗般的画家画作，这本书给20世纪最顽强的女艺术家之一，他们的工作和生活提供了生动的印象。感觉比以往任何时候都更加重要。

A new monograph on the life and work of an outstanding abstract expressionist painter, now emerging as one of the most important women artists of the 20th century.

This monograph accompanies the first European retrospective of the work of Lee Krasner (1908 1984). One of the original abstract expressionists, Krasner s importance has for too long been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. In fact, his death in 1956 marked her renaissance as an artist.

Over the course of more than five decades, Krasner continually scrutinized and reinvented her practice, giving her work formidable energy and impact. Her accomplishments began to be recognized toward the end of her life and in 1984 she became one of the few women artists to be given a solo exhibition at MoMA. As Krasner quipped about her belated recognition: I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent .

This volume features an outstanding selection of her most important paintings, collages and drawings, contextualized by photography from the post-war period, an illustrated chronology, and includes an unpublished interview with her biographer Gail Levin. Tracing her evolution as an artist from her earliest self-portraits to the acclaimed little image series, from her 1950s collages to epic painterly canvases this book offers a vivid impression of one of the most tenacious women artists of the 20th century, whose work and life feels more relevant than ever today.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Essay by John Yau Essay by Katy Siegel Essay by Amy Sillman 1. Becoming Lee 2. War Service 3. Little Images 4. Collages 5. From Earth Green to Umber 6. Primary Late Career Interview Lee Krasner with Gail Levin Illustrated Chronology