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Robert Motherwell : pure painting / edited by Susan Davidson ; essays by Jennifer R. Cohen, Susan Davidson, Jack Flam, Simon Kelly ; chronology by Monica McTighe.
Fine Arts Library N6537.M67 A4 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Robert Motherwell (Hatje Cantz) English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherwell, Robert--Exhibitions.
- Motherwell, Robert.
- Art, American--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Painters--America--Exhibitions.
- Painters.
- Painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, American.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- photobooks.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 27 x 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Pure painting
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2023]
- Summary:
- An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist's turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career. The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell's art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell's use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.
- Contents:
- Flashes of clarity: Robert Motherwell's pure painting / Susan Davidson
- Robert Motherwell, American master / Jack Flam
- An art of "ecstasy": Motherwell and nineteenth-century French modernism / Simon Kelly
- Spain and process in Motherwell's "late" paintings / Jennifer R. Cohen
- Robert Motherwell writings
- Notes:
- Published on the occation of the exhibition Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and exhibited at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, June 4-September 17, 2023 and Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, October 12, 2023-January 14, 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197)
- Local Notes:
- On the occasion of an exhibition held at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, June 4 - September 17, 2023; Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Austria, October 12, 2023 - January 14, 2024.
- ISBN:
- 9783775754385
- 3775754385
- OCLC:
- 1373398276
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