The Writings of Robert Motherwell (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
by Robert Motherwell
from University of California Press
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. His writing articulated the intent of the New York school --Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, and others--during a period when their work was often reviled for its departure from traditional representation. As founder of the Documents of Modern Art series (later renamed the Documents of Twentieth-Century Art), Motherwell gave modern artists a voice at a time when very few people understood their theories or work. This authoritative new edition of the artist's writings about art includes public lectures, essays, and interviews. Impeccably edited, with an informative introductory essay and rigorous annotation, it is illustrated with black-and-white images that elucidate Motherwell's writings.
The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)
by Robert Motherwell
from University of California Press
This book brings together a representative selection of Robert Motherwell's writings about art, public lectures, essays, interviews, and letters. Motherwell's writing was invaluable in articulating the intent of the New York School of American artists--Pollock, de Kooning, Gottlieb, Kline, Baziotes, Still, Gorky--during a period when their work was often reviled for its departure from traditional representation. Motherwell was not only the primary theorist of abstract expressionism but also one of its major exponents. As founder of the Documents of Modern Art series (later renamed The Documents of Twentieth-Century Art), he gathered the writings of modern artists to give them a voice at a time when very few people understood their theories or work.
Robert Motherwell
by Mary Ann Caws
from Columbia University Press
Caws discusses the artist's paintings, drawings, and collages in relation to the wide variety of American and European literature, philosophy, and art which influenced Motherwell.
Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991: A Catalogue Raisonne
by Siri Engberg
from Hudson Hills Press
One of the great 20th century Abstract Expressionists who made New York the centre of the art world, Motherwell was the most committed, innovative, and prolific printmaker of his generation. More than 500 editions in every printmaking medium with all new research and commentary.
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell With Selections From the Artist's Writings
Robert Motherwell On Paper
by David Rosand
from Harry N. Abrams
Robert Motherwell: with Pen and Brush (Essays in Art and Culture)
by Mary Ann Caws
from Reaktion Books
Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by the renowned writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, a friend of the artist, examines how Motherwell's way of writing and thinking illuminated his paintings. American by birth, yet European in his literary and philosophical perspectives, he straddled two traditions. He was drawn to France and French literature, to the idea of elegy and the Spanish Civil War, to the Surrealists, yet his spirit was singularly American -- a tension that gave his oeuvre a particular intensity. Drawing on conversations with the artist as well as on his writings, Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush brings his distinctive approach, unique among the Abstract Expressionists, into focus.
Prospectus for ULYSSES by James Joyce with forty etchings by Robert Motherwell.
Robert Motherwell; with selections from the artistÂ’s writings by Frank OÂ’Hara - Catalog for a retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 30-Nov. 28, 1965, and to circulate in Europe during 1966
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