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What Did the Women Want?: Review
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WHAT DID THE WOMEN WANT?: REVIEW OF KOONING: AN AMERICAN MASJfK, BY MARK STEVENS AND ANNALYN SWAN. NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF. 2004. 732 PAGES, ILLUSTRATED.
In the 1950s, the loose group of downtown painters who later became known as "the New York School" began making a little money. They abandoned the Waldorf Cafeteria, where a nickel cup of coffee could last for a whole night of shoptalk, and began gathering at a workingman's bar called the Cedar Tavern. The painters, all men, sometimes brought women with them. In 1956 the most eye-catching couple was Jackson Pollock-already the most famous of the New York painters-and his flamboyant young girlfriend Ruth Kligman. Later that year …
