9780714845814: Willem de Kooning
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{"authorDescription":"Judith Zilczer","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":12069,"guid":"ad211142-0caa-4b9f-8592-59a1b1a54484","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"120.00","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"100.00","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"79.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"100.00","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714845814","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"300","extent":"288","language":"English","lenInch":"11 7/8","lenMm":"302","weightKilo":"3.3","widthInch":"13","widthMm":"330"},"status":false,"subtitle":"A Way of Living","title":"Willem de Kooning","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Judith Zilczer, Curator Emerita of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, organized more than two dozen exhibitions in her twenty-nine years at the museum, where she served as Historian, Curator of Paintings, and Acting Chief Curator. Her exhibition publications include \u003cem\u003eWillem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection\u003c/em\u003e (1993). She has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and is recognized as a leading authority on the art of Willem de Kooning.\r\n","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) was one of America's most influential artists. Born in Rotterdam, he moved to New York when twenty-two years old, where his European training setting him aside from his American contemporaries as he developed into one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, or the New York School. He was first and foremost a painter, but this book also includes his works as draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Throughout his career his painting fluctuated between figurative and abstract styles, working particularly on themes of women and landscape.","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Books on artists tend to focus primarily either on their work or on their lives. Rarely does a publication come along that engages fully with both. Judith Zilczer's beautifully written book makes clear the way in which de Kooning's life cannot be separated from his work - his life and his art profoundly illuminate one another. If you truly want to appreciate the innovative accomplishments of de Kooning, this book is essential.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eKerry Brougher, Interim Director and Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;[Zilczer's] achievement in \u003cem\u003eA Way of Living\u003c/em\u003e is to connect, aesthetically and biographically, every phase of his protean production, united by what she sees as a romantic imperative: de Kooning's mantra that 'painting \u0026#8212; any kind of painting, any style of painting \u0026#8212; to be painting at all, in fact \u0026#8212; is a way of living, a style of living'... Her empathetic, generous account, which wears its learning lightly but demonstrates incisive thought, becomes first port of call for an overview of this most alluring, influential, still controversial artist.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times UK\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The traditional monograph seems an endangered species these days; one that gets everything right is rare enough to qualify as an art publishing event. \u003cem\u003eA Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning\u003c/em\u003e is an evenhanded, authoritative, and critically informed account of the great painter's achievement.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"The most comprehensive monograph on Willem de Kooning"}