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Article: Ab-ex rex.(book)(Book Review)
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- Art in America
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- April 1, 2005
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De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, New York, Knopf, 2004; 731 pages, $35.00 cloth.
In De Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have gotten hold of an exceptional topic. How could you come up with a better biographical subject than the life and times of a man many believe to be the greatest and most influential American artist of the 20th century, whose years (1904-1997) virtually spanned the modernist era, and whose career exemplified the catchphrase "the triumph of American painting"? In some ways it's a classic American story--the Dutch immigrant without a penny to his name (de Kooning illegally entered the ...