本书被称为关于画家Franz Kline最完整可靠的一本书，提供了关于他波西米亚式的生活方式和有影响力的作品的**手资料。

作为艺术历史著作的典范，《弗朗兹•克莱恩》仍然是关于该主题**一部买得到的专著。通过其详细而可读性极强的文本和170张插图（许多在这里是**次公开），本书揭露了关于克莱恩——抽象表现主义的领军人物——的大量新信息，并丰富了我们对他的艺术作品的欣赏和理解。这本书属于每个对美国绘画感兴趣的人的书架。

他花了数年时间努力为自己找到一种风格，然后通过戏剧性的黑白抽象画实现了“一夜成名”。 事实上，这些画是如此成功，以至于他们压倒了克莱恩艺术作品的其它所有方面，结果他被过度简化和低估了。 基于近20年的研究，这本开创性的专著对克莱恩的生活和工作作了全面的评价，并揭示了这两者令人意外的复杂程度。

通过对这位画家的朋友和评论家的采访，并引用他的信件，作者Harry F. Gaugh创作了一幅令人浮想联翩的画像，描绘了克莱恩从一名志向远大的艺术学生到在酒吧画壁画的身无分文的格林威治村画家，到最后成为一名拥有自己****、来之不易风格的成熟画家的演变过程。

Acclaimed as the definitive volume on artist Franz Kline, this book provides firsthand accounts of his Bohemian life and powerful work.

A model of art-historical writing, Franz Kline is, remarkably, still the only available monograph on its subject. With its detailed yet thoroughly readable text and 170 illustrations (many published here for the first time), this book brings to light much new information about Kline, a leading figure among the Abstract Expressionists, and enriches our appreciation and understanding of his art. This book belongs on the book shelf of everyone with an interest in American painting.

Franz Kline's energetic black strokes on a white field are as recognizable as Jackson Pollock’s drips or Mark Rothko’s rectangles of glowing color. He spent years struggling to find a style for himself and then achieved "overnight success" with his dramatic black–and–white abstractions. They were, in fact, so successful that they overwhelmed every other aspect of Kline's art, and as a result he has been oversimplified and underestimated. Based on nearly 20 years of research, this seminal monograph provides a comprehensive view of Kline's life and work and reveals how unexpectedly complex they both were.

Using interviews with the artist's friends and critics, and quoting from his letters, the author, Harry F. Gaugh, has created an evocative portrait of Kline's evolution from ambitious art student, to penniless Greenwich Village artist painting murals in bars, to, finally, a mature artist in command of his own unique and hard-won style.