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,
“... lofts, and taking on the status of giants and heroes. Pollock was already two years dead; Seitz’s record of the movement, although it is only now published, was written. The Seagram was special. Mies van der Rohe was asked to design it after a committee had considered both Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier: Phyllis Lambert, an architect and the ... ”