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The Writings of Robert Motherwell
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The Writings of Robert Motherwell Trade paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Motherwell, Robert, and Ashton, Dore (Editor), and Banach, Joan (Editor)

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Trade paperback. Very good.. University of California, 2007, 387 pages, trade paperback, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear
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  • Title The Writings of Robert Motherwell
  • Author Motherwell, Robert, and Ashton, Dore (Editor), and Banach, Joan (Editor)
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very good.
  • Pages 397
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.0001641
  • ISBN 9780520250482 / 0520250486
  • Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.94 x 7.12 x 1.16 in (25.25 x 18.08 x 2.95 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, Modern - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006039174
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.04

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From the publisher

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.

From the rear cover

"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

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/02/2007, Page 274

About the author

Dore Ashton (1928-2017) was Professor of Art History at the Cooper Union and author or editor of over 30 books on modern art and culture, including Noguchi East and West, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, A Fable of Modern Art, and A Critical Study of Philip Guston, all from UC Press. Joan Banach worked with Robert Motherwell from 1981 to 1991. She is an artist who lives in New York.

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