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Description:In the Spring of 1951, Shirley Morand famously entered the annals of American art history. Standing in line at the art house Coronet Theater to see Jean Cocteau’s surrealist classic The Blood of a Poet, she was approached by then-unknown artist Wallace Berman. Their chance encounter would put the couple at the forefront of the counterculture movement, with Wallace as the hipster-mystic artist and Shirley as the soft-spoken, steadfast first lady of California cool.Like Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas before them, the Bermans cultivated a social sphere unbeholden to the commercial art world. With friends like Dennis Hopper, George Herms, and Bruce Conner, the couple acted as a locus of the West Cost film, dance, and literature scenes. Shirley’s presence helped to facilitate these environments, allowing the opportunity for creative collaboration.Not a practicing artist herself, Shirley occupied the dual roles of observer and subject, at once a center of the orbit and a cause of its fascination. With her elfin beauty and preternatural poise, Shirley Berman embodied a type of ethereal femininity that encompassed the evolution of postwar American womanhood. As captured by the likes of Charles Brittin, Patricia Jordan, and Edmund Teske, Shirley conveys glamorous, yet unpretentious sophistication, whether superimposed onto double exposure of ruinous landscapes or floating supine on water like an Egyptian goddess. Kohn Gallery’s “Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman,” celebrates the unique legacy of this inspirational but lesser-known woman, who passed away in early 2022 at the age of 88. Curated by Karl Puchlik, the exhibition will present never-before-shown portraits of Berman, as well as original works drawn from her private collection, including Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Lun*na Menoh, Dean Stockwell, Edmund Teske, and others. An accompanying catalog will feature an extended interview with Berman by Claudia Bohn-Spector, illuminating the underappreciated role of women in the Beat Generation as well as an essay by Bohn-Spector and Tosh Berman, son of Shirley and Wallace Berman.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman. To get started finding Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 122

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Kohn Gallery

Release: 2022

ISBN: 1880086174

Description: In the Spring of 1951, Shirley Morand famously entered the annals of American art history. Standing in line at the art house Coronet Theater to see Jean Cocteau’s surrealist classic The Blood of a Poet, she was approached by then-unknown artist Wallace Berman. Their chance encounter would put the couple at the forefront of the counterculture movement, with Wallace as the hipster-mystic artist and Shirley as the soft-spoken, steadfast first lady of California cool.Like Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas before them, the Bermans cultivated a social sphere unbeholden to the commercial art world. With friends like Dennis Hopper, George Herms, and Bruce Conner, the couple acted as a locus of the West Cost film, dance, and literature scenes. Shirley’s presence helped to facilitate these environments, allowing the opportunity for creative collaboration.Not a practicing artist herself, Shirley occupied the dual roles of observer and subject, at once a center of the orbit and a cause of its fascination. With her elfin beauty and preternatural poise, Shirley Berman embodied a type of ethereal femininity that encompassed the evolution of postwar American womanhood. As captured by the likes of Charles Brittin, Patricia Jordan, and Edmund Teske, Shirley conveys glamorous, yet unpretentious sophistication, whether superimposed onto double exposure of ruinous landscapes or floating supine on water like an Egyptian goddess. Kohn Gallery’s “Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman,” celebrates the unique legacy of this inspirational but lesser-known woman, who passed away in early 2022 at the age of 88. Curated by Karl Puchlik, the exhibition will present never-before-shown portraits of Berman, as well as original works drawn from her private collection, including Wallace Berman, Charles Brittin, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Lun*na Menoh, Dean Stockwell, Edmund Teske, and others. An accompanying catalog will feature an extended interview with Berman by Claudia Bohn-Spector, illuminating the underappreciated role of women in the Beat Generation as well as an essay by Bohn-Spector and Tosh Berman, son of Shirley and Wallace Berman.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman. To get started finding Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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