A new book tells the story of the street called Coenties Slip, which became a bright, teeming hothouse of the New York avant-garde in the 1950s.
Even when the antagonisms aren’t so obvious, “The Slip” is defined as much by sticks as it is by carrots: its characters may not be able to explain what they do, but they’re clear on what they’re trying to avoid. Agnes Martin was nearing fifty when she moved to Coenties Slip, having spent most of the previous decade painting rich, dreamy abstractions in the Southwest.
What did any of this have to do with the Slip itself? “Place,” Peiffer declares in her introduction, “is an undervalued determinant in creative output.” That’s a funny claim for an art critic to make—it would be hard to discuss postwar American painting without mentioning the Cedar Tavern or Tenth Street, and this book is only the latest entry in the neglected-creative-community subgenre of biography. “The Slip,” though, goes all in on the conceit.
The surprise survivor of “The Slip” ’s place-centric approach is Rosenquist. He’s as vulgar as Kelly is tasteful, as various as Martin is consistent, as chunky-jangly as Tawney is delicate. Like Warhol, he got his start in commercial art; unlike Warhol, or, for that matter, Roy Lichtenstein or Claes Oldenburg, he had no patience for the shortcut of the ironic-iconic, which partly explains why his Pop art isn’t as recognizable as theirs.
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