New York Mid-Century

Post-War Capital of Culture, 1945-1965

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A comprehensive, highly illustrated study of New York’s emergence as the cultural capital of the postwar world, powerfully told by three renowned authorities in their respective fields.

iNew York MidCenturyi tells the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour from art architecture and design to music theatre and dance It was a period of intense crossfertilization as poets and critics mixed with artists dealers musicians designers architects dancers and choreographersbrbrAnnie CohenSolal brings alive the influential critics and patrons the legendary galleries and the artists themselves from Pollock Rothko and de Kooning to Johns Rauschenberg and Warhol Paul Goldberger presents the modernist architectural masterpieces that created the citys sleek new profile highlighting both public and private spaces while Robert Gottlieb invites us to relive the heyday of the musical explore the great jazz clubs of Harlem and peek into the inventive studios of the dance worldbrbrRichly illustrated with hundreds of paintings drawings photographs elevations plans posters playbills and ephemera iNew York MidCenturyi is a stirring evocation of a remarkably fertile period in the citys history the styles and aesthetics of which are now very much back in vogue
Extent: 400 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: 447
Publication date: 2014-09-29
Size: 23.8 x 16.2 cm
ISBN: 9780500517727

Press Reviews

Catalogues the spectacular results of a city’s culture catching up with its affluence … paints a vivid picture of cultural life half a century ago
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About the Authors

Annie Cohen-Solal is a best-selling author whose works include biographies of Jean-Paul Sartre and kingmaker art dealer Leo Castelli.

Paul Goldberger is former chief architecture critic for the New York Times and the New Yorker.

Robert Gottlieb, formerly editor of the New Yorker, is now dance critic for the New York Observer.

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