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Author Tucker, Marcia.

Title A short life of trouble : forty years in the New York art world / Marcia Tucker ; edited, and with an afterword, by Liza Lou
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages, [16] pages of plates)
Contents Prologue; one / 1945-1956; two / 1957-1959; three / 1960-1962; four / 1963-1964; five / 1965-1968; six / 1969-1970; seven / 1970-1974; eight / 1974-1976; nine / 1977-1980; ten / 1980-1983; eleven / 1983-1984; twelve / 1984-1993; thirteen / 1994-1995; fourteen / 1997; fifteen / 1998-2004; afterword by liza lou; author's acknowledgments; editor's acknowledgments; index; credits
Summary This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Tucker came of age in the 1960s, and this spirited account of her life draws the reader directly into the burgeoning feminist movement and the excitement of the New York art world during that time. Her own new ways of thinking led her to take principled stands that have changed the way art museums consider contemporary art. As curator of painting and sc
Notes Includes index
In English
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Subject Tucker, Marcia.
SUBJECT Tucker, Marcia fast
Subject Art museum curators -- United States -- Biography
Art critics -- United States -- Biography
ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
Art critics
Art museum curators
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Lou, Liza, 1969-
LC no. 2021696323
ISBN 9780520942196
0520942191