Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell A new definitive overview of the founding Abstract Expressionist celebrated for his Elegies to the Spanish RepublicFamously the most politicized and intellectual of the Abstract…
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Robert Motherwell
A new definitive overview of the founding Abstract Expressionist celebrated for his Elegies to the Spanish RepublicFamously the most politicized and intellectual of the Abstract Expressionists, Robert Motherwell (1915-91) evolved a form of austere gesturalism reflective of both the human psyche and the political realm. Leading art scholars Jennifer Cohen, Susan Davidson, Simon Kelly, Monica McTighe and Sarah Rich examine Motherwell's turn from Surrealism to abstraction and consider the major series that developed over his 50-year career. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting offers an in-depth exploration of his oeuvre--the first publication to do so in many years.
The catalog also studies the dialogue between Motherwell's art and the 19th-century French painting tradition, and investigates his relationship to Spanish painting techniques and