de Kooning
An American Master
Winner of the Pulitizer Prize and National Book Critics Award Circle Award. An authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master.
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de…
$47.00
April 4, 2006
MARK STEVENS has been the art critic for Newsweek, The New Republic, and New York magazine and has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times.
Stevens and Swan won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for their biography, de Kooning: An American Master. They live in New York.
Francis Bacon
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
de Kooning
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
ANNALYN SWAN is the former arts editor of Newsweek and an award-winning music critic. She teaches biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as at the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English.
Stevens and Swan won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for their biography, de Kooning: An American Master. They live in New York.
Francis Bacon
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
All the Money in the World
Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan