TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Cathy
TI  - A generous vision: the creative life of Elaine de Kooning 
SN  - 9780190498474 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - ND 237 C978g 2017
U1  - 759.13 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - De Kooning, Elaine.
KW  - De Kooning, Elaine Marie, 
KW  - Painters
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Pintores
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Women painters
KW  - Mujeres pintoras
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: Drawing and Discovering ; Chapter 2: Life with Bill ; Chapter 3: Black Mountain, Provincetown, and the Woman Paintings ; Chapter 4: Illuminating Art ; Chapter 5: East Hampton, Pro Sports, and the Separation ; Chapter 6: Enchantment ; Chapter 7: Loft Life, Speaking Out, and European Vistas ; Chapter 8: Portraits as Moments and Memory ; Chapter 9: Painting the President ; Chapter 10: Caretaking and Cave Paintings
N2  - 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.'0
ER  -