Elaine de Kooning
portraits
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Contributions
- Čupić, Simona, author - Contributor
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) - Contributor
Publication
2015 - Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Germany
Language
English
Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-103791354388
- ISBN-139783791354385
- Library of Congress Control Number2014958601
- OCLC Control Number898530063
- Better World Books9783791354385
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27189016M
Classifications
- DDC759.13
- LCCN6537.D42 A4 2015
- LCCND237
Description
"John F. Kennedy, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham, and Fairfield Porter were just some of the figures who sat for portraits by Elaine de Kooning. Famous for her marriage to the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Elaine was herself a groundbreaking artist and writer who challenged many conventions during her career. Although she portrayed women, she was most engaged with portraits of men, sometimes painting multiple portraits of her subjects in order to explore and capture their most compelling likeness. She focused intently on her subjects--as she wrote in 1965, "Like falling in love painting a portrait is a concentration on one particular person and no one else will do." This insightful book explores de Kooning's portraits as well as her artistic process and her position in the rise of Postmodernism. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and archival photos, this book is an important contribution to the literature on Abstract Expressionism, women artists, and feminism during a transformative period, and will also appeal to lovers of painting of all kinds." -- Publisher's description.
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- Elaine de Kooning
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