- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New edition edition (10 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520221796
- ISBN-13: 978-0520221796
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 18.1 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,259,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"More than any other artist since Vasari, I think, Robert Motherwell undertook to situate the art movement in which he participated in the larger structures of history. He played a triple role, as thinker, as maker and as intermediary, in the transformation of modernism that took place in New York in the 1940s and '50s."--Arthur Danto, "The New Republic
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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.
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Robert Motherwell was introduced to the surrealist technique of psvchic automatism by Roberto Matta during the summer of 1941, when he and the Chilean artist were in Taxco. Read the first page
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Abstract Art's Virgil
6 Nov 2000
Format:Paperback
Motherwell was a superb writer in addition to being a painter. This anthology spans 1941-1988. It's a great read, not only for it's insights into art but also for capturing the flavour of the time. In a sense it let's you stand behind Motherwell's shoulder and peer into his thoughts and see how he viewed modern art both from a philosophical view point as well as aesthetic.
A lot of it is drawn from his public writings and speeches but a lot is fairly personal in nature, taken from his journals.
It's well annotated and useful if you're interested in the abstract movement.
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5 Aug 2001
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Robert Motherwell, is one of the great geniuses of American art. His Paintings are broad and powerful images; more "pure" than many other of the abstract painters of his day. This is a superlative book, which lets you into Motherwells mind. Any reader will see his sharp criticism and poignant observations, those who are open will take them to heart.
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