DE KOONING, WILLEM
WILLEM DE KOONING: Tracing the Figure
Butler, Cornelia H., Paul Schimmel, Richard Shiff and Anne M. Wagner. WILLEM DE KOONING: Tracing the Figure. 200 pp., 124 color plates and 6 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002.
This strikingly designed book, published in conjunction with an exhibition originating at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, explores de Kooning's drawings of the female form between 1940 and 1955. It reveals an artist who struggled to eliminate traditional barriers between drawing and painting as he explored ambiguities between the figure and its background.
Item nr. 100174
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