ORIGINALS (Touchstone Book)

By Eleanor Munro

Book Overview

At the end of the 1970s, Eleanor Munro embarked upon a series of interviews with some of the leading visual artists in the nation, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, and Jennifer Bartlett. The resulting portraits led to a book as significant and exciting as the artists within it. Now Munro has added a new generation of women -- including Kiki Smith and Julie Taymor -- and a new introduction to her landmark entry in the literature of visual art, ensuring its status as an invaluable resource well into the twenty-first century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671428128
• ISBN13: 9780671428129
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Janson of psychoaesthetic art history

As Louise Bourgeois said, "Mai, c'est serieux!" Munro covers Cassatt through Kikki Smith using history rather than iconography and enlivens the telling with her many terrific interviews. Especially interesting was the difference between her experience interviewing women artists in the nineties versus interviewing them in the seventies. Munro found it extremely hard to reach these new celebrity artists who, like men, wouldn't share their fears or failures for history. A classic which happens to be about women.