The Writings Of Robert Motherwell

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520940512

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The Writings of Robert Motherwell by Robert Motherwell Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822028325512

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The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell by Robert Motherwell Pdf

Writings on art from 1941 to 1988.

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520250482

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The Writings of Robert Motherwell by Robert Motherwell Pdf

"Robert Motherwell was not just a great painter, he was a brilliant thinker. As the founding editor of The Documents of Twentieth-Century of Art, he decisively shaped our understanding of modernism. This new and expanded selection of Motherwell's criticism provides an essential guide to the art of the high modern period, both American and European."—Pepe Karmel, author of Picasso and the Invention of Cubism "In the past two decades Abstract Expressionism has become one of the most dynamic subjects in art history; sometimes the reading is so dense it is like swimming through peanut butter. But, cutting through to the essential questions that generated the movement, the writings of Robert Motherwell are a treasure. Written at the same time he was painting, Motherwell's texts make me feel like a witness to the philosophical curiosity that generated one of the most powerful art movements of the twentieth century."—Michael Auping, author of Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments “This book is essential reading for anyone thinking about the uneasy clash of modernism and postmodernism in postwar America; Motherwell’s writing played a decisive role and this volume is an admirably full account of it.”—Jonathan Fineberg, author of When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861891415

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Robert Motherwell by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings. The artist, American by birth, yet simultaneously American and European in his way of visualizing and vocalizing artistic and philosophical traditions, always worked between these two poles, and it is this tension that imbues his œuvre with its particular intensity. The author bases her analysis of Motherwell on the artist’s own writings and readings, as well as on extensive conversations and interviews with him. She considers his work and interests in relation to those of other Abstract Expressionists as well as to the work of the Surrealists. Her book highlights his deep attraction to France and French literature and art, and his concern with the idea of elegy and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War. His singularly American spirit provided him with a manner of painting and thinking unique among the Abstract Expressionists, as well as with a distinctive and highly personal filter through which to interpret his fascination with European literature and history.

Author : Robert Hobbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0367511428

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Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy by Robert Hobbs Pdf

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics.

Author : Stephanie Terenzio,Robert Motherwell,Dorothy C. Belknap
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015031783551

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The Prints of Robert Motherwell by Stephanie Terenzio,Robert Motherwell,Dorothy C. Belknap Pdf

This magnificent volume provides a definitive study of the great Abstract Expressionist artist's work as a printmaker. This long-awaited third edition documents and reproduces all his graphic work to 1990, covering more than 450 prints. The text includes an extensive series of interviews with master printers and publishers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dominique Levy Gallery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1944379002

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Robert Motherwell by Anonim Pdf

Robert Motherwell (1915-91) came to abstraction not through painting, but through philosophy, poetry and art history. While studying at Stanford, he was introduced to modernism and symbolism; Mallarmé's dictum, "To paint, not the thing, but the effect it provides," would prove essential in Motherwell's work. Elegy to the Spanish Republic is perhaps the most literal example of this influence. Begun in 1948, the series, comprising some 150 canvases, was the artist's "funeral song for something once cared about" in abstract pictorial form. Exploring the inextricable links between poetry, politics, writing and painting revealed in the history of the series, this volume includes Harold Rosenberg's "A Bird for Every Bird," Federico García Lorca's "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías," notes and writings by Motherwell on the Spanish Civil War, scholarly essays and rare archival material.

Author : Mel Gooding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822038999462

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Robert Motherwell by Mel Gooding Pdf

A number of Robert Motherwell's most important early works were collage-paintings, beginning with his first effort in the spring of 1943, "Pierrot's Hat," made while working alongside Jackson Pollock in the latter's studio. "I took to collage like a duck to water," Motherwell later reflected, and he continued to "play with papers" for the rest of his life, esteeming his skill in the medium as one of his "chief gifts." Collage also helped the artist reconcile his relationship to European modernism (particularly Surrealism) on the one hand, and American Abstract Expressionism on the other. Reproducing a concise selection of collages from throughout the artist's career in full color, this volume also includes a series of "case studies" on individual collages and broader essays by critic Mel Gooding that examine their composition, palette and literary allusions, and Motherwell's unique position bridging Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

Author : Susan Davidson,Megan M. Fontanella,Brandon Taylor,Jeffrey Warda
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892074973

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Robert Motherwell by Susan Davidson,Megan M. Fontanella,Brandon Taylor,Jeffrey Warda Pdf

Catalog published on the occassion of the exhibition "Robert Motherwell: Early Collages" held at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, May 26-September 8, 2013; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014.

Author : Mark Rothko
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300114400

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Writings on Art by Mark Rothko Pdf

The first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents--including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures--written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist's life and work is also included. This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. As was revealed in Rothko's The Artist's Reality, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer.

Author : Stephanie Terenzio,Robert Motherwell,Dorothy C. Belknap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009418446

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The Painter and the Printer by Stephanie Terenzio,Robert Motherwell,Dorothy C. Belknap Pdf

Catalogue raisonné.

Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674185005

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The Dada Painters and Poets by Robert Motherwell Pdf

Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:890180372

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Robert Motherwell by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Motherwell,E. A. Carmean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art, Abstract
ISBN : UOM:39015016576822

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The Collages of Robert Motherwell by Robert Motherwell,E. A. Carmean Pdf

Author : Robert Motherwell,Robert Bigelow,John E. Scofield,E. A. Carmean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Group work in art
ISBN : UOM:39015006732021

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Reconciliation Elegy by Robert Motherwell,Robert Bigelow,John E. Scofield,E. A. Carmean Pdf

"This photographic journal records the collaboration of Robert Motherwell and his studio assistants in the creation of the artist's monumental painting Reconciliation Elegy, a commission for the East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C."--Back cover.