Taking Helen Frankenthaler's 1950s New York debut as its starting point, The heroine Paint: After Frankenthaler, a new publication edited by Katy Siegel, follows Frankenthaler's own painting as well as the immediate influence of Frankenthaler's work on other artists, tracing artistic currents gathered under her name as they move outwards in different directions over time. The book collects scholarly essays, texts from contemporary artists, reprints of historical writing, and interweaves these voices with a visual chronology that locates key works from performances, publications, and cultural ephemera for over seven decades.
The heroine Paint: After Frankenthaler will offer a wealth of historical information and promises to be an important resource for young artists, as well as critics, curators, and art historians of modern and contemporary art. The wealth of archival imagery from cultural as well as artistic sources, and the elegance of the writing promise to make the book accessible and compelling as well to a general art audience.
