The Renegade Housewives of Pop Art: A Memoir of the 1960s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781938461774)

Vendor: Joan Kron
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Format: Hardcover
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The Renegade Housewives of Pop Art: A Memoir of the 1960s

$75.00

The Renegade Housewives of Pop Art: A Memoir of the 1960s

$75.00
Format: Hardcover
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Through a rich collection of personal stories and an extensive private photographic archive, The Renegade Housewives of the 1960s offers insight into Joan Kron's life and the vibrant creative landscape of the 1960s in Philadelphia and beyond.

Joan Kron's remarkable career spans from her early work as a costume designer at NBC Universal to her later roles as a reporter, writer, and editor for prominent New York publications, including the New York Times, New York Magazine, and Allure. In The Renegade Housewives of the 1960s, Kron's voice--strong-willed, witty, and incisive--resonates on every page as she details her life. Alongside her business partner and close friend of the '60s, Audrey Sabol, Kron corresponded and collaborated with artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, and Marisol Escobar. The two were known for their leadership at the Y Arts Council in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where iconic events and exhibitions shaped a local arts community. Drawing on a rich collection of personal stories and an extensive private photographic archive, this extraordinary written and visual memoir offers an intimate portrait of Joan Kron's life while also illuminating the vibrant creative landscape of 1960s Philadelphia and beyond.

Author: Joan Kron
ISBN-10: 1938461770
ISBN-13: 9781938461774
Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2026
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
By Joan Kron
By Joan Kron
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Joan Kron, a prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate in costume design of the Yale Drama School (now the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale) and worked at NBC-TV on "Howdy Doody" and other shows before moving to Philadelphia. There, as a founder and head of the Arts Council of the YM/YWHA in the 1960s, she produced a series of ground-breaking Pop Art exhibitions.

In her early forties, she embarked on a career in journalism, writing, in quick succession, for Philadelphia magazine, New York magazine, and the New York Times, where she was the chief reporter in the newly created Home Section. She then joined the Wall Street Journal, where she was a front-page reporter, initiating the fashion beat. She served as editor-in-chief of Avenue magazine for four years, before joining Conde Nast's beauty magazine, Allure, where, as contributing editor-at-large for 25 years, she created the plastic-surgery beat. She went on to produce and direct the prize-winning documentary film "Take My Nose Please! Comediennes and Plastic Surgery."

She is the author of "High-Tech: the Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home" with Suzanne Slesin (Clarkson Potter, 1978); "Home-Psych: the Social Psychology of Home and Decoration" (Clarkson Potter, 1983); Ms. Faux Pas: a Non-Guide to Glitterati Manners" (Parvenu,1988)); and "Lift: Wanting, Fearing, and Having a Face-Lift "(Viking, 1998). Now 98, she lives in Miami, Florida. She is at work on her second film, "Weapon of Beauty: The Cloak and Dagger History of Botox."

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