De Koonings Bicycle

Author : Robert Long
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374165386
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De Kooning's Bicycle written by Robert Long and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the 20th century's most important artists and writers lived and worked on the east end of Long Island years before it assumed its alternate identity as the Hamptons. The homes they made there, and the effect on their work, is the subject of these searching, lyrical vignettes.

Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375711163
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626744X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willem de Kooning Nonstop written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This image-rich essay offers a radical rethinking of the ab-ex painter Willem de Kooning by one of the greatest American art critics. Many have written about de Kooning s startling canvases of monstrous women, but none have approached them this way. In prose as energetic as her subject, Rosalind Krauss demonstrates how de Kooning could never stop reworking the same subject. Deploying one telling image after another, she shows that, from the early days of his career, de Kooning nearly always (1) worked with a tripartite vertical structure, (2) projected his own figure and point of view as the (male) artist into the painting, and (3) was compelled to produce the female figure, legs splayed obscenely or knees projected into the viewer s space in practically everything he made. Hidden in plain sight even in paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes, Woman is always there. How could we have missed this?"

Author : Rosalind E. Krauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626758X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willem de Kooning Nonstop written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning’s Woman I and subsequent paintings established him as a leading member of the abstract expressionist movement. His wildly impacted brushstrokes and heavily encrusted surfaces baffled most critics, who saw de Kooning’s monstrous female image as violent, aggressive, and ultimately the product of a misogynistic mind. 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. Krauss demonstrates that contrary to popular conceptions of de Kooning as an artist who painted chaotically only to finish abruptly, he was in fact constantly reworking the same subject based on a compositional template. This template informed all of his art and included a three-part vertical structure; the projection of his male point of view into the painting or sculpture; and the near-universal inclusion of the female form, which was paired with her redoubled projection onto his work. Krauss identifies these elements throughout de Kooning’s oeuvre, even in his paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes: Woman is always there. A thought-provoking study by one of America’s greatest art critics, Willem de Kooning Nonstop revolutionizes our understanding of de Kooning and shows us what has always been hiding in plain sight in his work.

Author : Willem De Kooning
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870707973
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Catherine Morris
Publisher : Cader Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Willem de Kooning written by Catherine Morris and published by Cader Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work and career of Willem de Kooning, including background information about the New York School and others who influenced the artist.

Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775869
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movements in Art Since 1945: Second Edition (World of Art) written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic introduction to art since the end of the Second World War, Movements in Art Since 1945 tells the story of art across all forms of media over the past seventy-five years. Revised and redesigned for the first time since 2001, this standard introduction to visual art in the postwar era examines the movements, trends, and artists from abstract expressionism to the present day. Writing with exceptional clarity and a strong sense of narrative, Edward Lucie- Smith demystifies the work of dozens of artists and reveals how the art world has interacted with social, political, and environmental concerns. This book includes detailed coverage of major developments within the artistic community, such as pop art, conceptual and performance work, neo-expressionism, and minimalist art across the globe, including Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A new chapter on art since 2000 includes discussions of work by Banksy and Ai Weiwei, as well as recent trends in art from Russia and Eastern Europe. Featuring nearly 300 images of key artworks that range from graffiti from 1980s New York to contemporary painting from China, this updated edition of Movements in Art Since 1945 is as global in its reach as art has become in the twenty-first century.

Author : Peter Gratton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438442289
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking written by Peter Gratton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent project on the "deconstruction of Christianity." Focusing on Nancy's writings on globalization, Christianity, the plurality of art forms, his materialist ontology, as well as a range of contemporary issues, an international group of scholars provides not just inventive interpretations of Nancy's work but also essays taking on the most pressing issues of today. The collection brings to the fore the originality of his thinking and points to the future of continental philosophy. A previously unpublished interview with Nancy concludes the volume.

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307815552
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shock of the New written by Robert Hughes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

Author : Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1660 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Goes Green [3 volumes] written by Kim Kennedy White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume encyclopedia explores the evolution of green ideology and eco-friendly practices in contemporary American culture, ranging from the creation of regional and national guidelines for green living to the publication of an increasing number of environmental blogs written from the layperson's perspective. Evidence of humanity's detrimental impact on the environment is mounting. As Americans, we are confronted daily with news stories, blogs, and social media commentary about the necessity of practicing green behaviors to offset environmental damage. This essential reference is a fascinating review of the issues surrounding green living, including the impact of this lifestyle on Americans' time and money, the information needed to adhere to green principles in the 21st century, and case studies and examples of successful implementation. America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States examines this gripping topic through 3 volumes organized by A–Z entries across 11 themes; state-by-state essays grouped by region; and references including primary source documents, bibliography, glossary, and green resources. This timely encyclopedia explores the development of an eco-friendly culture in America, and entries present the debates, viewpoints, and challenges of green living.