Marla Prather Livres

This beautiful book presents a retrospective of eighty of Willem de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper. The book reassesses de Kooning's critical status as one of America's greatest and most influential artists, examines the complexity of his painting techniques, and places him in the context of other artists and art movements of his era. The book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition of de Kooning's work presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, Nov. 24, 2010-May 22, 2011.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, An American Legacy, A Gift to New York records an unprecedented gift of postwar art. The gift, from fifteen Whitney trustees, encompasses eighty-seven key works by twenty-three of the most prominent artists to come of age in the 1950s and 1960s, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol.

Das Werk von Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) ist eng mit der abstrakten Hard-Edge-Malerei der 60er Jahre, mit Farbfeldmalerei und Minimal Art verknüpft. Es kommt ohne anspruchsvolle Techniken aus, betont die Einfachheit der Formen, oft durch kräftige Farben unterstützt. Kellys Buch mit seinen schönen, erstaunlich zarten Pflanzen-, Blumen- und Blattzeichnungen erscheint jetzt wieder als zweisprachige gebundene Ausgabe.