From Publishers Weekly
While some critics see an artistic decline in de Kooning's output from the 1970s onward, Waldman, deputy director of the Guggenheim Museum, champions his "great and innovative late body of work." Countering charges that his flamboyant "Woman" series is sexist because it portrays females as objects of male manipulation, the author retorts, "This is how women were perceived in the 1950s." She finds de Kooning's goddess-whore icons "as resplendent as any Venus that has come down to us through the ages." Combining stuffy solemnity and critical overkill, this study is nevertheless useful for its analyses of individual paintings. Its 112 reproductions (half in color) include urban landscapes, portraits fusing the real and the imaginary, black-and-white abstractions, knotty sculpture. Also here are the simple paintings of the '80s, an emptying out of all but essential shape, line and color.
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From Library Journal
$35. art A straightforward, no-frills monograph on the life and work of one of the most important post-World War II artists. A prominent member of the New York School, de Kooning has, over 60 years, created a body of work that in its own way charts the development and direction of mid-20th-century American art. Selected works illustrate the evolution from figurative painting through the black-and-white period, the multiple studies and versions of the Woman series, the Hampton landscapes, the serious involvement with sculpture, and the current, open, essentially line and color paintings. The artist's relationships with contemporaries and with predecessors are examined. A sound contribution to this series. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
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Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
