Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West is centered around the life and work of three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, and Jeanne Reynal. The authors "aim to establish the significance of itinerant teaching and western travel as a strategic choice for women artists associated with traditional centers of artistic authority and population in the eastern United States" and offers a "fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s."Learn more in the book review from Hyperallergic.
Also featured this month are two new titles from La Fabrica’s Essentials series, which consists of accessible monographs dedicated to fundamental names in photography.
Tina Modotti (1896–1942) was an Italian-born photographer, model, actor and political activist, who had a notable photography career during the brief period she lived in Mexico, from 1923 to 1930. Modotti was part of Mexico City’s avant-garde scene and a close companion with iconic artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Edward Weston. From portraiture to photojournalism, she created a total of just over 400 black and white photographs, with some of the most acclaimed prints featured in this publication.
Martín Chambi Jiménez (1891-1973) was a Peruvian photographer and recognized as one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers. Chambi is well known for his photographs of the people, towns, and landscapes in the Peruvian Andes. He sold many of his photographs of Cuzco in the form of postcards, of which Georgia O’Keeffe collected and saved with her travel ephemera. This small book introduces the reader to Chambi through an essay, over 50 black and white photographs chronologically arranged with commentary, and a brief biography.
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Also featured this month are two new titles from La Fabrica’s Essentials series, which consists of accessible monographs dedicated to fundamental names in photography.