Willem de Kooning - Os materiais do artista

Foi há pouco publicado o seguinte livro:

Susan F. Lake, Willem de Kooning. The Artist's Materials, Los Angeles, The Getty Conservation Institute, 2010.

Índice:

• De Kooning in Perspective, p. 5
• Biographical Overview
• De Kooning's Personal Statements and Interviews
• Critical Reception of de Kooning's Paintings
• Literature on de Kooning's Materials and Working Methods
• Paintings of the Late 1940s and 1950s, p. 19
• Early Representations of the Female Figure: Queen of Hearts (1943-46)
• Colored Abstractions: Special Delivery (1946) and Secretary (1948)
• Black-and-white Paintings: Zurich (1947)
• Women Paintings: Woman (1948), Woman (1953), and Two Women in the Country (1954)
• "Painting Situations"
• Paintings of the 1960s, p. 48
• Abstract Landscapes: Untitled (May 1962)
• Return to the Figure: Two Standing Women (1963-64), Woman (1964), and Sphinx (1964)
• The Door Paintings: Woman, Sag Harbor (1964), Woman (1964), and Woman (1965)
• De Kooning in Context
• Analysis of de Kooning's Media in Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s, p. 72
• Chemistry of Drying Oils
• Paint Mock-ups
• Solvent Extraction Studies
• Glycerol and Fatty Acid Measurements
• Effects of Pigments
• Conservation Implications of de Kooning's Painting Techniques
• Appendixes, p. 81
• Tables
• Methods of Sample Preparation
• Works of Art Examined