Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 10, 2002 - May 5, 2002, traveling to The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 29, 2002 - January 5, 2003; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 15 - September 8, 2002. Willem de Kooning, one of the great pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, experimented with the human form throughout his career. An artist deeply skeptical about Western ideals of beauty, he focused on anatomical fragmentation and spatial ambiguity to express the fleeting nature of the individual. This book explores de ... [details]