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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

byPrudence Peiffer

Prudence Peiffer tells the story of Coenties Slip, a short Lower Manhattan street where a remarkable group of artists lived and worked during the 1950s and 1960s. Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, and neighbors found cheap lofts, waterfront light, community, and distance from dominant art-world expectations. Their shared environment encouraged experimentation without producing a single style. The book recovers the Slip as a creative ecosystem, showing how friendship, architecture, solitude, and a disappearing maritime district helped transform postwar American art.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780063097209