A review by elysechev
De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

4.0

This is a well researched and well written biography of an artist whose career helped define American art in the second half of the twentieth-century. The sections about the New York art scene in the 1950's are particularly vivid. The only thing I actively disliked in this book was its treatment of Elaine de Kooning. I found it to be rather unfair to her and to her relationship with Willem de Kooning. A lot of de Kooning's female relationships were problematic, and he gets off pretty scot-free in this account.