New York School Painters & Poets: Neon in Daylight (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780847837861)

New York School Painters & Poets charts the collaborative milieu of New York City poets and artists in the mid-twentieth century. This unprecedented volume comprehensively reproduces rare ephemera, collecting and reprinting collaborations, paintings, drawings, poetry, letters, art reviews, photographs, dialogues, manifestos, and memories. Jenni Quilter offers a chronological survey of this milieu, which includes artists such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Alex Katz, Jasper Johns, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, George Schneeman, and Rudy Burckhardt, plus writers John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Frank O'Hara, Charles North, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Anne Waldman, and more.

"Giving us for the first time a full picture of the scene these artists and writers shared," writes Carter Ratcliff in his foreword, "this book illuminates the unities and tensions, the playfulness and glamour and startling authenticity of their collaborations. Here we not only see evidence of a modus operandi. We also feel the exuberance of a certain modus vivendi, a way of life."

By Jenni Quilter, Edited by Allison Power, with Advisory Editors: Bill Berkson and Larry Fagin, and Foreword by Carter Ratcliff.

Author: Jenni Quilter
ISBN-10: 0847837866
ISBN-13: 9780847837861
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.90lbs
Size: 12.30h x 9.30w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2014
Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 86