One of America's greatest painters, Willem de Kooning is a masterful colourist whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s, coincides with the artist's ninetieth birthday in the spring of 1994.
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Willem de Kooning, the First Twenty-six Years in New York
Discusses the private and professional life of the twentieth-century American painter who was part of the Abstract Expressionism movement of art.
Excerpted from Sartre's L'être et le néant: Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1943. ———–.1956. Being and Nothingness. A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology. Trans. Hazel E. Barnes. New York: Citadel Press.
Willem de Kooning in East Hampton
In the image-rich Willem de Kooning Nonstop, Rosalind E. Krauss counters this view with a radical rethinking of de Kooning’s bold canvases and reveals his true artistic practices.
Chronicling the life and career of a 20th-century masterWillem de Kooning arrived in the United States in 1926 as a 22-year-old stowaway from Holland--soon to become a leading figure in...
Willem de Kooning had a restless, probing creativity, pushing on from one style to the next. The battle between abstraction and figuration was essential to his art as he moved...
Willem de Kooning
Addition to Basic Arts series covering the most prominent pieces of de Kooning's body of work