Elaine de Kooning : portraits

The Resource Elaine de Kooning : portraits
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Elaine de Kooning : portraits
Title remainder
portraits
Statement of responsibility
Brandon Brame Fortune, Ann Eden Gibson, Simona Cupic
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Artist
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Language
eng
Summary
"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
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
BTCTA
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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  • bibliography
  • catalogs

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