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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
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Author:
Prudence Peiffer
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
August 1, 2023
A group portrait of artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, Jack Youngerman, and the street they all called home, Coenties Slip in the 1950s and 1960s.
What The Reviewers Say
Tenderly researched.
Marvelous, crisply written.
Things that burn bright and vanish are easily idealized, but in The Slip...the critic Prudence Peiffer opts for a tricky blend of mythmaking and myth-busting.
Throughout the book’s first half or thereabouts, Peiffer advances her premise by weaving historical facts about the Coenties Slip into the artists’ stories, interjections that sometimes weigh down her narratives’ otherwise ascending arcs.
