Abstract
In this splendid book, Sigourney Award–winning psychoanalyst GraemeTaylor guides his readers on an exciting, rewarding, applied psychoana-lytic trip into the fascinating, disturbing life, world, and art of one ofAmerica’s greatest modern artists, Willem de Kooning. Although thisartist did not like to be constrained by any single art category, he is oftenconsidered an abstract expressionist member of the New York School.Utilizing our hermeneutic science to augment understanding of art, art-ists, and wider cultural matters is often interesting, thought-provoking,and important, and is so in this instance