Table of Contents

FOREWORD Maxwell L. Anderson The Paintings of Joan Mitchell Jane Livingston A Rage to Paint: Joan Mitchell and the Issue of Femininity Linda Nochlin "Beyond Life and Death": Joan Mitchell's Grande Vallee Suite Yvette Y. Lee PLATES WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX

Promotional Information

This volume was designed to accompany an exhibition of Joan Mitchell's work.

About the Author

In addition to The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, Jane Livingston curated the exhibitions and authored the books Richard Avedon: Evidence and Richard Diebenkorn: A Retrospective, all at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Among her other books are The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963 (1992) and Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters & Sculptors (1987). Linda Nochlin is Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and author of many books including Representing Women (1999). Yvette Lee is Assistant Curator for Special Projects at the Whitney Museum of American Art.