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Willem de Kooning arrived in the United States in 1926 as a twenty-two-year-old stowaway from Holland, soon to become a leading figure in the emergence of abstract expressionist painting in New York. This volume presents over 100 illustrations of every phase of de Kooning's artistic evolution, and explains the personal and art historical background behind his groundbreaking work and its critical reception. Author Sally Yard details the progress of de Kooning's career, from his brief stint as a WPA painter, to his first one-person exhibition of abstract work in 1948, Five years later, an exhibition of women painted in aggressive, lashing gestures stunned contemporaries, not only for the vehemence of the artist's attack, but also for the reversal of direction from abstraction to figuration. The alternation and intertwining of these two genres remained fundamental to de Kooning's work over six decades. Lavish illustrations and Sally Yard's accessible scholarly discussion make this book invaluable for anyone seeking to understand the work and impact of this twentieth-century master.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0500091862
- ISBN 13 9780500091869
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Book Description blue & bronze metallic decorative cloth hardbound folio ~ 2º (9.5"x12"). very large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( FPU1988 & NAP). ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. glossy full color frontis. 156p. 120 illustrations, including 56 in full glossy color. many full page full color plates. chronology. selected bibliography. index. art history. biography. fine arts. painting. ~ "Nurtured by the most intense privacy, by uninterrupted contemplation of his own past as man and as artist, de Kooning's recent canvases now enter the public domain of late~style miracles in the pantheon of Western painting" ~ Robert Rosenblum. The art of Willem de Kooning comprises an extraordinary body of paintings, drawings and sculpture that spans more than sixty years of continuing innovation and investigation. This authoritative, full~scale study traces de Kooning's life and career from his humble origins in Rotterdam, where he was born in 1904, to his triumphant rise as one of the major figures in American art. Diane Waldman, Deputy Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, offers a thoughtful essay on the artist's career, illustrated with a well~considered selection of his most important work, through which we can trace de Kooning's stylistic evolution from his first figurative paintings of the 1920S to his famous black~and~white paintings of the late 1940s and his notorious Women series of the 1950s. The Women are discussed in depth, as are his later abstract landscapes, the development of an important body of sculpture in the 1970s, and his brilliant late paintings of the 1970s and 1980s. With its superb illustrations, many of them in colour ~ complemented by a chronology, select bibliography and comprehensive index ~ this is a major reassessment of a central figure in the art of post~war America. Seller Inventory # 11291802
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