Mark Stevens
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De Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
- 2005 Pulitzer–Biography winner
- 2004 LATimes–Biography winner
- 2004 NBCC–Biography winner
- Score: 30.55
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 Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic…
