Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning - Hardcover

$45.99

Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning - Hardcover

Name: Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780190498474
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by Cathy Curtis

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Book Overview

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." Nearly two decades after their separation, after finally embracing sobriety herself, she returned to his side to rescue him from severe alcoholism.

Based on painstaking research and dozens of interviews, A Generous Vision brings to life a leading figure of twentieth-century art who lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.

ISBN	9780190498474
Author	Cathy Curtis
Publisher	Oxford Univ PR
Genre	Biography and Arts
Format	Hardcover
Published	October 2017
Language	ENG- English
Pages	306
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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