professor of art at the University of Southern California

Harry Smith (1923–1991) was among the most original creative forces in postwar American art and culture

a sculptor

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The playful rhymes and dazzling collages are reminders that each of us is unique and can produce a work of art that's equally unique

Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials book professor of art at theSusan F. Lake This in depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (19041997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather