Collected Writings

by Willem De Kooning

an almost 4x3 small book with 194 pages on Willem de Kooning's Collected Writings. Published by Hanuman Books. Printed in India. Released in 1988.

Paperback

First published June 1, 1988

About the author

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine de Kooning.
In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or "action painting", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, John Ferren, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart. De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011–2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

Reviews

[Danorange · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is expensive and hard to find. However, it is well worth it, as de Kooning's writings often pinpoint precisely the countenance that his paintings possess. For people who need to understand that countenance in words, it is therefore useful. Also an incredibly small book apparently printed in India. The size of a pocket bible. How fitting!

[Mills College Library]

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