A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning /

A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning /

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Author / Creator:Curtis, Cathy (Writer on art), author.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:x, 292 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford cultural biographies
Oxford cultural biographies.
Subject:
De Kooning, Elaine.
De Kooning, Elaine.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
Women painters -- United States -- Biography.
Painters.
Women painters.
United States.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11339610
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ISBN:9780190498474
0190498471
9780190498504
0190498501
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, 'A Generous Vision' portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively casual style. As a painter, she melded Abstract Expressionism with a lifelong interest in bodily movement to capture subjects as diverse as President John F. Kennedy, basketball players, and bullfights. In her romantic life, she went her own way, always keen for male attention. But she credited her husband, Willem de Kooning, as her greatest influence; rather than being overshadowed by his fame, she worked 'in his light.'0.

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