de Kooning: A Retrospective - Hardcover

John Elderfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500093636 ISBN 13: 9780500093634

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2011

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Reseña del editor:

Published in conjunction with the large-scale, all-medium, posthumous retrospective of Willem de Koonings career at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), this book offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artists work as it unfolds over nearly seven decades. Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints. Among these are the artists most famous, landmark paintings among them Pink Angels, Excavation and the celebrated third Woman series plus in-depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the black-and-white compositions of 194849, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artists return to figuration in the 1960s and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade. Also included is de Koonings famous yet largely unseen theatrical backdrop, the 17-foot-square Labyrinth (1946). With lavish, full colour documentation, this volume is the most complete account of de Koonings career ever published.

Reseña del editor:

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 quite widely from the notions of "action painting" and "abstract expressionism" that have become the.conventional wisdom. Now, more than a decade after his death, it is for the first time possible to view his career whole and in depth. Addressing that rich task, de Kooning : A Retrospective will prove revelatory even for those who know his work well.

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• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0500093636
• ISBN 13: 9780500093634
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 504