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A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning / Cathy Curtis.
- Title
- A generous vision : the creative life of Elaine de Kooning / Cathy Curtis.
- Author
- Curtis, Cathy (Writer on art)
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- x, 292 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- 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.'
- Series Statement
- Oxford cultural biographies
- Alternative Title
- Creative life of Elaine de Kooning
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Drawing and discovering -- 2. Life with Bill -- 3. Black Mountain, Provincetown, and the Woman paintings -- 4. Illuminating art -- 5. East Hampton, pro sports, and the separation -- 6. Enchantment -- 7. Loft life, speaking out, and European vistas -- 8. Portraits as moments and memory -- 9. Painting the President -- 10. Caretaking and cave paintings.
- ISBN
- 9780190498474
- 0190498471
- 9780190498504
- 0190498501
- LCCN
- ^^2017016260
- 40027512578
- OCLC
- 973920611
- SCSB-10276292
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library