Illustrating America
Peter Campbell, 21 March 1985
Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture
by Paul Cummings, Jorn Merkert and Claire Stoullig.
Norton, 308 pp., £35, August 1984,0 393 01840 7 Show More
by Paul Cummings, Jorn Merkert and Claire Stoullig.
Norton, 308 pp., £35, August 1984,
Abstract Expressionist Painting in America
by William Seitz.
Harvard, 490 pp., £59.95, February 1984,0 674 00215 6 Show More
by William Seitz.
Harvard, 490 pp., £59.95, February 1984,
The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York
by Peter Conrad.
Oxford, 329 pp., £15, June 1984,0 19 503408 2 Show More
by Peter Conrad.
Oxford, 329 pp., £15, June 1984,
“... The landmarks of New York – the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Rockefeller and World Trade Centres – have no ceremonial public function. Victories are consecrated in the streets, with ticker-tape falling. And New York painting is like New York celebrations: it has not been made for palaces and chapels. Reginald Marsh’s Coney Island bathers were its Three Graces, George Bellows’s boxers its Laocoon ... ”
