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Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials

Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials

Paperback

Series: Artist's Materials

Art HistoryConservation & PreservationIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 160606021X
ISBN13: 9781606060216
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
Published: Sep 28 2010
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.80
Language: English

This in-depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials.

De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather than rigorous technical analysis. This is the first systematic study of de Kooning's creative process to use comprehensive scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports to inform art historical interpretations, thereby presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work.

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