ISBN: 9783775716291 - de kooning: paintings 1960-1980: katalog zur ausstellung im kunstmuseum basel, museum für gegenwartskunst, 2005/6. dtsch.-engl. (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover, with dust jacket. Many ills in color, often full-page. 199 p. -very good. ISBN 9783775716291.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 204 pp., 65 ills. hardcover 24.70 x 30.80 cm - Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) is regarded as a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism and celebrated in the U.S. as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century painting. Yet in Europe, the artist has yet to be fully recognized as the important figure he was. That applies in particular to his work of the sixties and seventies, his years of retreat from urban life to live and work on Long Island. This part of his oeuvre bears the imprint of a fundamental experience of landscape, and it is here that he developed a style of figuration (which de Kooning never really abandoned) characterized by a new sense of color and energetic gesture. This period of vigorous, pioneering creativity in the art of Willem de Kooning is explicitly illuminated for the first time in this book. Featuring a concentrated selection of painting in large formats, it shows how his works - although recognizable as landscapes - grew abstract under the influence of his intense experience of nature while his brushwork literally liberated itself from all bonds.…

Burgi, Bernhard Mendes, Klaus Kertess and Ralph Ubi. WILLEM DE KOONING: Paintings 1960-1980. Includes text by Harold Rosenberg and biographical notes by Roland Wetzel; 204 pp., 56 color and 9 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005. This monograph concentrates on a sometimes overlooked phase of De Kooning's career, two decades where he worked on Long Island and, in response to his bucolic surroundings, developed a gesturalism that is grander and less frenetic than in the early work even as it retains its essential vigor. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Basel Kunstmuseum. Text in English and German.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 176 pages. 12.00x9.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.