Biografía del autor 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. A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York 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. Named a New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2021A glowing jewel of a book . . . All five senses are shaken awake . . . There is sight, of course, with color insets of Schloss's bright and optimistic daubings alongside work by her more dour-seeming contemporaries. There is sound, in her recounting of the unholy clamor of the Chelsea neighborhood where she and Burckhardt shacked up . . . [The Loft Generation] is a book that feels manifestly present, clear and alive even while describing the past." --Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times "Rarely does a writer describe artists' lives with the exciting voyeurism of celebrities tied together in a web of sex and booze, while also insightfully commenting on their process, output, and legacy--Schloss manages to do both. . . . [Schloss] celebrates the audacity of the young without sentimentality . . . The reminiscences are not all sweet, but they are bold and stirring, much like the school of art that Schloss knew so intimately." --Max Holleran, The New Republic"Weaves an intricate micro-history of an unprecedentedly energized and interconnected artistic community . . . The selections in [The Loft Generation] are restless in both form and content, migrating from urban history, art monograph, and elegy to the more traditional narrative and psychological territories of memoir . . . The Loft Generation is fast-paced and deeply funny . . . tossing the reader into the postwar mêlée of a rapidly shapeshifting New York." --Jamie Hood, Vulture"A gripping story about a group of young artists, many of them immigrants like Schloss, who reshaped contemporary art and in the process made New York the center of the art world . . . [The Loft Generation's] pleasures, of which there are many, lie in the intimate details." --
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