{"product_id":"9781968417000","title":"Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting","description":"By:      \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished on the occasion of \u003ci\u003eWillem   de Kooning: Endless Painting,\u003c\/i\u003e 555 West 24th St, New York, an exhibition organized   with the support of the Willem de Kooning Foundation and curated by Cecilia   Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director \u0026amp; Chief Curator of High Line Art.   The book documents paintings by the artist dating from 1944 through 1986 and   two sculptures, with a dedicated plates section featuring the works in the   exhibition, installation shots, and contextual images of the artist. \u003ci\u003eEndless   Painting\u003c\/i\u003e is the sixth solo exhibition of de Kooning’s work presented   by Gagosian, with the first organized in 1987.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering figure of the postwar era,   de Kooning probed the expressive potential of color, line, and space and   continuously challenged the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.   Through the considered placement of late paintings the exhibition foregrounds   visual motifs that recurred throughout de Kooning’s career. This approach reflects   Alemani’s close investigation of paintings from the 1980s in which she   identified an expansive repertoire of human forms—elbows, knees, mouths,   eyes—that can be traced as far back as the artist’s works of the 1930s and   1940s that drew on Cubism and Surrealism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe Kooning   often reworked canvases, reincorporating passages from earlier compositions   by tracing shapes he wanted to preserve onto vellum, and even changing their   orientation multiple times during the painting’s gestation. It was through   revisiting and revising his compositions that he developed a consistent but   flexible vocabulary of color and gesture rooted in figuration. “A restless   explorer of the canvas, de Kooning never stopped interrogating the possibilities   of what painting could be,” Alemani notes. The exhibition’s title, \u003ci\u003eEndless   Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, references this enduring, ever-evolving visual language and the   artist’s professed decision to “just stop” rather than formally finish   paintings. Alemani and John Elderfield explore these concepts in the book and   expand on the many possible interpretations of de Kooning’s work.","brand":"Gagosian \/ Rizzoli","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":49022951325923,"sku":"DTRRZUS-9781968417000","price":672.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781968417000.jpg?v=1779942730","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9781968417000","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}