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020 $a9781680531008$q(hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)1145602490
050 4 $aND237.D334$bC53 2020
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100 1 $aClark, Marlene,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe woman in me :$bWillem de Kooning, Woman i-vi /$cMarlene Clark.
264 1 $aWashinton, DC :$bAcademica Press,$c[2020]
300 $a293 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aWillem de Kooning's six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. At their debut in 1953, the critics were incensed by the ugliness of the images themselves and by the inclusion of vestiges of the figure in abstraction. Consequently, they questioned De Kooning's attitude toward women and commitment to the Abstract Expressionist project. Countering such objections to De Kooning's psychological state and artistic goals, Marlene Clark's The Woman in Me: Willem de Kooning, Woman I-VI argues that these canvases could be read as self-portraits, negating claims of misogyny and explaining the presence of figuration amidst abstraction. On a number of occasions, De Kooning admitted that the images on these canvases were "me - but with big shoulders." The Woman in Me focuses on De Kooning's propensity to "play" with the sexed body in his paintings. Clark argues that earlier criticism may have missed a more philosophical dimension of De Kooning's paintings, one that explores the malleability of representations of biological sex and the male/female binary.
600 10 $aDe Kooning, Willem,$d1904-1997$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen in art.
650 0 $aSex in art.
650 0 $aSelf-portraits, American$xHistory and criticism.
852 00 $bfaxlc$hND237.D334$iC53 2020