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Between Sense and De Kooning
Richard Shiff
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Description for Between Sense and De Kooning
Hardcover. Accompanying a major de Kooning retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in September 2011, Between Sense and de Kooning provides a close examination of the artist's works and process, covering the entire span of his career. Num Pages: 256 pages, 96 colour illustrations, 107 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 286 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1470.
'Order to me is to be ordered about', Willem de Kooning said. Between Sense and de Kooning is an exploration of how de Kooning both worked and thought concerning art, while respecting the artist's own ambiguities and his reluctance to embrace categorical distinctions between representation and abstraction. Richard Shiff acknowledges de Kooning's idea that art is not about concepts like progress or development, but is instead a sensory phenomenon. The word Sense in this book's title carries a dual meaning - it is used here as both a sensation or feeling and as reason or direction. Employing both definitions, Shiff ... Read more
'Order to me is to be ordered about', Willem de Kooning said. Between Sense and de Kooning is an exploration of how de Kooning both worked and thought concerning art, while respecting the artist's own ambiguities and his reluctance to embrace categorical distinctions between representation and abstraction. Richard Shiff acknowledges de Kooning's idea that art is not about concepts like progress or development, but is instead a sensory phenomenon. The word Sense in this book's title carries a dual meaning - it is used here as both a sensation or feeling and as reason or direction. Employing both definitions, Shiff ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898531
SKU
V9781861898531
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About Richard Shiff
Richard Shiff is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many other books including Doubt (2008).
Reviews for Between Sense and De Kooning
'Richard Shiff's Between Sense and De Kooning is a tour de force. But of what precisely? It's a category of art writing for which there is no genre, like De Kooning famously said of Duchamp, he's a movement of one! This is not a survey or a biography but an extraordinarily deep conversation with the reader about what De Kooning ... Read more