Willem De Kooning Nonstop - Cherchez La Femme

Informationen zum Autor Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor at Columbia University, where she was previously the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She is the cofounder of October and has written many essays and books. She has also curated many exhibitions at leading museums. Klappentext This image-rich essay offers a radical rethinking of the ab-ex painter Willem de Kooning by one of the greatest American art critics. Many have written about de Kooning s startling canvases of monstrous women, but none have approached them this way. In prose as energetic as her subject, Rosalind Krauss demonstrates how de Kooning could never stop reworking the same subject. Deploying one telling image after another, she shows that, from the early days of his career, de Kooning nearly always (1) worked with a tripartite vertical structure, (2) projected his own figure and point of view as the (male) artist into the painting, and (3) was compelled to produce the female figure, legs splayed obscenely or knees projected into the viewer s space in practically everything he made. Hidden in plain sight even in paintings of highways, boats, and landscapes, Woman is always there. How could we have missed this?"

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Krauss, Rosalind E. Krauss, Krauss Rosalind E.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780226267449
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26744-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, art monographs