de Kooning: An American Master

“The story of de Kooning is one of the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America, the mid-century New York art world and its wide-ranging cast of characters from artists, to critics, to dealers and so much more. At the center is the artist, his art, his relationships. The authors command a vast amount of information (detailed in the notes and bibliography) in a story that takes us from the artist’s beginning in the slums of Rotterdam to his dementia late in life, to create a compelling narrative that illustrates what a biography of a figure of recent history might accomplish. Through the accounts of his contemporaries, de Kooning emerges not only as a great artist, but as sympathetic figure for whom we are rooting from the first pages” Read more...

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