Loft Generation
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Product details
- ISBN 9781250858726
- Weight: 298g
- Dimensions: 135 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2023
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
