威廉.德.库宁，荷兰籍美国画家，抽象表现主义的灵魂人物之一，新行动画派的大师之一。在他创作生涯中，人体成为其绘画创作的主体，加以风景及书写的符号来发展他的抽象世界。他将欧洲立体主义、超现实主义与表现主义的风格融于自己大而有力的绘画行为之中，把激进艺术的理念融化在自己的艺术世界里。即使是极端的绘画作品也具有艺术美感，试图唤醒人们心中一种与所有生命事物的内在关联感。

Author Judith Zilczer, Curator Emerita of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC and a leading authority on the artist, offers readers an unprecedented look at de Kooning’s body of work based on years of tireless research. Rich in documentary photographs, sketches, and preparatory drawings, this beautifully illustrated book showcases more than 200 paintings, drawings, and sculptures in an outstanding large‐format package.

Judith Zilczer, Curator Emerita of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, organized more than two dozen exhibitions in her twenty–nine years at the museum, where she served as Historian, Curator of Paintings, and Acting Chief Curator. Her exhibition publications include Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection (1993). She has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and is recognized as a leading authority on the art of Willem de Kooning.

"Books on artists tend to focus primarily either on their work or on their lives. Rarely does a publication come along that engages fully with both. Judith Zilczer’s beautifully written book makes clear the way in which de Kooning’s life cannot be separated from his work – his life and his art profoundly illuminate one another. If you truly want to appreciate the innovative accomplishments of de Kooning, this book is essential." – Kerry Brougher, Interim Director and Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

"[Zilczer’s] achievement in A Way of Living is to connect, aesthetically and biographically, every phase of his protean production, united by what she sees as a romantic imperative: de Kooning’s mantra that ’painting – any kind of painting, any style of painting – to be painting at all, in fact – is a way of living, a style of living’ . . .Her empathetic, generous account, which wears its learning lightly but demonstrates incisive thought, becomes first port of call for an overview of this most alluring, influential, still controversial artist." – Financial Times (UK)

"The traditional monograph seems an endangered species these days; one that gets everything right is rare enough to qualify as an art publishing event. A Way of Life: The Art of Willem de Kooning is an evenhanded, authoritative, and critically informed account of the great painter’s achievement." – Bookforum