Sculpting My Life

Résumé du livre

As he approaches his 90th year, Dutch-born sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp narrates his rise to fame as one of the leading abstract expressionists in contemporary art. Displaying easy wit and boundless self-confidence, Bovenkamp shares early-childhood memories of spotting a Nazi in his back yard; losing an older brother in a tragic drowning accident; asserting his independence against a domineering father; emigrating to America; resisting being pigeonholed in school; breaking into the cutthroat New York art world; befriending the legendary Dutch painter Willem de Kooning; and taking his place among the generation of iconic artists who followed Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to the Hamptons region of Long Island. Hans' stories of maintaining his unique creative integrity will inspire a new generation of emerging artists and encourage all readers who self-identify as non-conventional. Cowritten with Warren Strugatch, a former New York Times art columnist, "Sculpting My Life" tells the story of a lifelong nonconformist's insistence on defining himself - at every step along the way.