The Essential Willem De Kooning (Essential Series)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
The Essential Willem De Kooning (Essential Series) Details
Focusing on Willem de Kooning, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work. After voyaging from the Netherlands to the United States as a stowaway at the age of 22, de Kooning emerged as one of the major figures of modern art. The book examines his images of strange women's faces, his vivid colours, and his lyrical later works, created as he drifted into Alzheimer's disease. Read more
Reviews
When I first got this book I was a little skeptical thinking an artist as gifted as de kooning couldnt be captured in a little book, particularly an artist in the abstract field. Glad to say I was wrong. The author accomplishes what she sets out to do:- comprehensive overview of de kooning's life and works; - introducing non-lovers of abstract art (not me but friends) in a non-overbearing manner to the world of abstract art; - highlighting de kooning's major works.Accomplishing the above in a small book the size of a cd that you can read in one airline flight is pretty impressive. Aftert reading it I felt I knew de kooning -- already one of my favorite artists -- even more than I did before and I will certainly get other books in this series on different artists.