de Kooning (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Mark Stevens - ISBN: 9780375711169
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The first major biography of Willem 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.

de Kooning (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

An American Master

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  • Paperback

    752 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2006

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Summary

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 expressioni…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375711169
ISBN-10:0375711163
Author:Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Imprint:Alfred A. Knopf
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:752
Release Date:15 April 2006
Weight:1.17kg
Dimensions:233mm x 157mm x 44mm
About The Author

Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens is the art critic for New York magazine. He has also been the art critic for The New Republic and Newsweek and has written for such publications as Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.Annalyn Swan has been a writer at Time and an award-winning music critic and senior arts editor at Newsweek. She has written for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and New York magazine. She lives in New York City.

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