de Kooning: A Retrospective
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
Third Printing (2012). Hardcover.
A comprehensive trace of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works executed in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s.
The standing of Willem de Kooning as one of the foremost artists of the New York School is widely accepted, as is his revolutionary importance to modern art as a whole. Far less well understood is the quality of his thinking – what he imagined painting to be, his sense of its history and present, and the nature of his studio methods and procedures. All of these differed widely from the notions of “action painting" and "abstract expressionism” with which he has been associated. The present volume, published over a decade after his death, reviews his full career in depth.
Item #901611ISBN: 9780870707971
9-7/8 x 12-1/4 x 1-3/4”, light green cloth, 504pp, list of references, index of illustrations, acknowledgments, list of MOMA trustees, 529 color and 130 black and white reproductions.
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Price: $175.00