Os textos presentes neste livro abordam novas indagaccedil;otilde;es que se colocam a partir da relaccedil;atilde;o da dramaturgia com as miacute;dias emergentes; analisando a sua convivecirc;ncia com noccedil;otilde;es fundamentais da teoria do drama; revisitadas sob nova perspectiva; em face da produccedil;atilde;o contemporacirc;nea.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Too big a stretch.By G. DorfmanWillem de Kooning/ Looking for the Woman is a series of essays. each seemingly generated by the preceding one. which attempts to make the case that the female image is somehow transferable to his entire ouvre. In order to make this case. which is by no means apparent even to a de Kooning devotee. she strains language and thought beyond measure. She takes selected elliptical lines of the artist over-literally; for instance stating that the artist felt himself inside the picture when he is also on the record as stating he painted himself out of the picture. She repeats quotations several times as if that will make her assumptions clearer. She repeats anothers speculation that a v of 25 degrees in a painting is somehow perspectival. She repeats anothers speculation that his masterpiece Excavation was influenced by pits of detritus from the dismantling of the 3rd avenue El. which was still up and running past 10th street several years after the picture was painted and sent off to Chicago. She brings in Greenbergs charge of illusionism and shading without further comment or analysis. She brings in Freud for content. She feels justified in comparing the effulgence of ten feet of unprimed cotton duck in the center of a Morris Louis Unfurled to de Ks close quarter jerry-rigged planes. She also lassos Picasso and Jasper Johns inclusion of the artists image into their pictures to create an tripartite analogy mdash; artist/model/painting mdash; of her own devising. But de Kooning did not include his own image or use models. She claims that the complex scrape on the right of Woman I is also a doppelganger for the woman. There is no female discernable resemblance apart from its verticality. No one can claim that these observations are wrong. and perhaps standing next to her in front of these paintings might be more convincing. but moving back and forth from the prolix text to the (excellent) reproductions in the back leaves this sympathetic reader scratching his head more often than not.1 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Do not buy this book. Sorry that I did ...By Madeline SadofskiDo not buy this book. Sorry that I did . save your money and buy De kooning a way of living.
