Download or read book The Collected Writings of Willem de Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philip Guston written by Philip Guston and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long. There may have been periods of silence precipitated by existential moments of doubt, but such lapses seem anomalous when measured against the voluminous transcriptions gleaned and edited by Clark Coolidge. Coolidge has done an admirable job arranging and presenting the book's contents, entirely relevant to anyone curious about Guston, and by extension, American Art of the post-World War II period."—Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Knox-Albright Gallery
Download or read book The Spirit of Abstract Expressionism written by Elaine De Kooning and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here are 28 essays which provide insight into the spirit of abstract expressionism.
Download or read book De Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.
Download or read book Elaine and Bill Portrait of a Marriage written by Lee Hall and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willem and Elaine de Kooning shared not only a tumultuous, on-again, off-again 'open' marriage, they also navigated a 1950s New York art scene at the center of an artistic revolution.
Download or read book De Kooning written by Harriet Janis and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Susan Lake and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather than rigorous technical analysis. This is the first systematic study of de Kooning's creative process to use comprehensive scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports to inform art historical interpretations, thereby presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work. Written for conservation scientists, conservators, specialists in modern art history, museum curators, and practicing artists, this book offers insights into the way an artist can achieve radical changes in style. The technical discussions will have practical applications for conservators, curators, collections managers, and collectors who care for twentieth-century art.
Download or read book Between Sense and De Kooning written by Richard Shiff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Order to me is to be ordered about", Willem de Kooning said. Between Sense and de Kooning is an exploration of how de Kooning both worked and thought concerning art, while respecting the artist's own ambiguities and his reluctance to embrace categorical distinctions between representation and abstraction. Richard Shiff acknowledges de Kooning's idea that art is not about concepts like progress or development, but is instead a sensory phenomenon.
Download or read book Interviews with American Artists written by David Sylvester and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past 40 years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.
Download or read book Abstract Expressionism written by Joan M. Marter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that discuss abstract expressionist art.
Download or read book A Generous Vision written by Cathy Curtis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively casual style. As a painter, she melded Abstract Expressionism with a lifelong interest in bodily movement to capture subjects as diverse as President John F. Kennedy, basketball players, and bullfights. In her romantic life, she went her own way, always keen for male attention. But she credited her husband, Willem de Kooning, as her greatest influence; rather than being overshadowed by his fame, she worked "in his light." Nearly two decades after their separation, after finally embracing sobriety herself, she returned to his side to rescue him from severe alcoholism. Based on painstaking research and dozens of interviews, A Generous Vision brings to life a leading figure of twentieth-century art who lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.
Download or read book de Kooning written by Mark Stevens and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitizer Prize and National Book Critics Award Circle Award. An authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s. The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York school—just as American art began to dominate the international scene. Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figure—and his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank O’Hara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimer’s, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
Download or read book Scott Burton written by Scott Burton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together Burton's writings on art and performance ... tracing his development as an art critic and including his early artist statements. This period, from 1965 to 1975, was foundational for Burtons' later artistic practice"--P. 1.
Download or read book The Impact of Chaim Soutine 1893 1943 written by Maurice Tuchman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Esti Dunow and Maurice Tuchman.
Download or read book Willem De Kooning written by Sally Yard and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Sally Yard. Interview by Harold Rosenberg, James T. Valliere.
Download or read book Willem de Kooning written by Willem De Kooning and published by Walker Art Center. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and scheduled to appear as well in museums in Bonn, Rotterdam, and New York during 1996 and 1997. Until now, the 1980s paintings have been seen only in a handful of gallery exhibitions or in the context of large museum surveys; this presentation allows study of the distinguishing qualities of these late paintings, and the thoroughly researched essays explore the complex issues surrounding de Kooning's affliction with Alzheimer's disease. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Willem De Kooning written by Edvard Lieber and published by . This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with Lieber's candid photographs, this book presents a firsthand portrait of artist Willem de Kooning that sheds light on Abstract Expressionism and debunks many Kooning myths. 95 illustrations, 70 in full color.
