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Author De Kooning, Elaine.

Title The spirit of abstract expressionism : selected writings / Elaine De Kooning ; essay by Rose Slivka ; preface by Marjorie Luyckx
Published New York : George Braziller, 1994

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Description 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Preface / Marjorie Luyckx -- Essay / Rose Slivka -- Portfolio of Photographs -- Selected Writings / Elaine de Kooning. "A Cahier Leaf" (1958). "Edwin Dickinson Paints a Picture" (1949). "Hans Hofmann Paints a Picture" (1950). "Andrew Wyeth Paints a Picture" (1950). "Albers Paints a Picture" (1950). "Gorky: Painter of His Own Legend" (1951). "Kerkam Paints a Picture" (1951). "David Smith Makes a Sculpture" (1951). "Dymaxion Artist" (1952). "The Modern Museum's Fifteen: Dickinson and Kiesler" (1953). "Venus, Eve, Leda, Diana, et al." (1953). "Vicente Paints a Collage" (1953). "Reynal Makes a Mosaic" (1953). "Subject: What, How, or Who?" (1955). "Renoir: As If By Magic" (1956). "Stuart Davis: True to Life" (1957). "Pure Paints a Picture" (1957). "Two Americans in Action: Franz Kline & Mark Rothko" (1958). "Statement (1959). "Participants in a Hearsay Panel" (1959). "New Mexico" (1961). "Franz Kline: Painter of His Own Life" (1962). "Painting a Portrait of the President" (1964)
"Jackson Pollock: An Artists' Symposium" (1967). "A Recollection" (1982). "de Kooning Memories" (1983). "A Stroke of Genius" (1984). "Busa's Festive Imagery" (1985) -- On the Work of Willem de Kooning, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1983-84)
Notes Includes 29 critical essays, most published in ArtNews 1949-1989, and previously unpublished selections from journals and letters
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236)
Subject De Kooning, Elaine.
Abstract expressionism -- United States.
Art, American -- 20th century.
Art, American.
Author Slivka, Rose.
LC no. 93036945
ISBN 0807613371