Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la femme

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Review “Krauss’s short book is written in lucid, cogent prose, making its argument as strongly through its 73 illustrations as it does through the written text. . . . Willem de Kooning Nonstop offers a fresh and persuasive perspective on its subject, provoking thoughtful engagement with his work and with paintings by other artists who influenced him.” (Times Higher Education)“One wonders whether we will lose these paintings when the intercessions of figures like Krauss come to a stop. The short answer is: most likely. For as the paintings age, thick with history and embedded in critical discourse, their need for the readings of modernists like Krauss has only become more acute. It is for this reason that we should continue to read Krauss, nonstop.” (Critical Inquiry)“Willem de Kooning Nonstop is a master class in close looking, the most visually rigorous treatment available of de Kooning’s entire career.” (Pamela Lee, author of New Games: Postmodernism After Contemporary Art)“This book delivers incomparable visual insights with the calculated speed of de Kooning’s brushwork. Krauss homes in on everything vital and raw and rigorous in abstract expressionism and grants the reader de Kooning’s ultimate wish: to be inside the painting.” (Noam M. Elcott, author of Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media)“Willem de Kooning Nonstop is written with utter directness and generosity, and testifies on every page to its author’s unstoppable engagement with the realities of painting. It is strong above all by reason of Krauss’s ability to sense connections—to see Picasso and Matisse and Vermeer and Rubens in de Kooning—and to think (and feel) deeply about the tension between past and present in the artist’s best work. Abstract expressionism has rarely been defended with such passion.” (T. J. Clark, author of Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica) Read more About the Author 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. Read more

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Do not buy this book. Sorry that I did , save your money and buy De kooning a way of living.

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