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A short life of trouble :

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0520257006

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0520265955

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9780520257009

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9780520265950

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b781678

Title Proper

A short life of trouble :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

forty years in the New York art world /

First Statement of Responsibility

Marcia Tucker ; edited, and with an afterword, by Liza Lou.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

215 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes index.

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Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Prologue 1 -- [chapter 1] One 1945-1956 000 -- [chapter 2] Two 1957-1959 000 -- [chapter 3] Three 1960-1962 000 -- [chapter 4] Four 1963-1964 000 -- [chapter 5] Five 1965-1966 000 -- [chapter 6] Six 1967-1968 000 -- [chapter 7] Seven 1969-1970 000 -- [chapter 8] Eight 1971-1974 000 -- [chapter 9] Nine 1975-1976 000 -- [chapter 10] Ten 1977-1980 000 -- [chapter 11] Eleven 1980-1983 000 -- [chapter 12] Twelve 1983-1984 000 -- [chapter 13] Thirteen 1984-1993 000 -- [chapter 14] Fourteen 1994-1995 000 -- [chapter 15] Fifteen 1997 000 -- [chapter 16] Sixteen 1998-2004 000 -- Afterword by Liza Lou 000 -- Author's Acknowledgments 000 -- Editor's Acknowledgments 000 -- Credits 000 -- Index 000.

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Text of Note

"In this insightful and well-crafted memoir, long-time contemporary art curator Tucker (1945-2006) gives readers a backstage account of forty years on the New York and national art scene. A passionate art student, Tucker's career began when she put down the paint brush and dedicated herself to tracking down contemporary art; before long, she would become the first woman curator of The Whitney Museum, before founding and directing The New Museum. Her curatorial history is both humble and sophisticated ("it's one thing to want to create something, another to spend your life interpreting what someone else has made"), as well as vivid, charming and honest, revealing in direct language her reasons for exhibiting Bill Bollinger's giant boulder, pulled whole from the WTC excavation site, or storming out of a class--and her PhD program--after a professor referred to Nancy Graves's realistic, life-size camel sculptures as "novelty art."

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Aside from meeting some of the most famous artists of our time, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, Tucker's personal story involves a tragic family life and years as a starving artist, related poignantly but without pandering. Deftly edited by close friend and artist Lou, this is an arresting tour of a life devoted to new art, with a perfectly charming guide"--PW Annex Reviews.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Univ of California Pr, California/Princeton 1445 Lower Ferry rd, Ewing, NJ, USA, 08618, (609)8831759

Tucker, Marcia.

Tucker, Marcia, 1940-2006

Tucker, Marcia.

Tucker, Marcia.

Tucker, Marcia.

Art critics-- United States, Biography.

Art museum curators-- United States, Biography.

Art critics-- United States.

Art critics.

Art museum curators-- United States.

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Autobiografie

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Tucker, Marcia.

Lou, Liza,1969-

Date of Transaction

20201206202146.0

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[Book]

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