Dutch boy paints.(De Kooning: An American Master)(Book Review)

National Review | February 28, 2005| | Copyright

De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf, 752 pp., $35)

THE American painter Willem de Kooning escaped Marx only to be done in by Freud. De Kooning enjoyed little time--perhaps only a few years in the late 1940s--between the maturation of a personal style, free of Depression-era politics ("We divorced politics from our art, although we were political," he once said), and his leveling by drink and fame. "I saw Jackson in his grave," he proclaimed at Jackson Pollock's funeral. "And he's dead. It's over. I'm number one." That was in 1956. ...

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