Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds

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Caws discusses the artist's paintings, drawings, and collages in relation to the wide variety of American and European literature, philosophy, and art which influenced Motherwell.

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Overview

Caws discusses the artist's paintings, drawings, and collages in relation to the wide variety of American and European literature, philosophy, and art which influenced Motherwell.

Columbia University Press

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In a meandering, allusive text, Caws (comparative literature, CUNY) combines anecdotes from Motherwell's life with a wide variety of literary and artistic references to locate his place in the art movements of this century. This discussion is interspersed with Caws's responses to specific works or series by Motherwell. A chronology of the artist's life, photographs of him in his last years, transcripts of several interviews with him, and a generous selection of reproductions of his paintings and collages complete the volume. Some readers will find Caws's idiosyncratic prose puzzling, though others may find it quite compatible with Motherwell's abstract expressionistic spirit. Suitable for informed lay readers as well as scholars, this work is best suited to academic and special libraries.-Kathryn Wekselman, Univ. of Cincinnati
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Caws (English, French, and comparative literature, City U. of New York Graduate School) has written what she calls a "personal criticism," in which she profiles one of the most renowned and prolific of the abstract expressionists, discussing his life, his work, and the man she knew personally. She discusses his paintings, drawings, and collages in relation to the variety of American and European literature and philosophy Motherwell saw as central to his art, and looks closely at some of his works in a series of critical meditations. Includes color plates, as well as numerous black-and- white reproductions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780231096447
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication date: 4/18/1996
  • Series: Interpretations in Art Series
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 7.25 (w) x 10.24 (h) x 0.71 (d)

Table of Contents

PrefaceA Short Biography1 - Painter, Writer and Reader2 - America and Europe3 - An Ethical Aesthetic: Individual and Public4 - Feeling and Violence5 - Surrealism and Spontaneity6 - Voyage and QuestL Baudelaire and Mallarme, Eliot and Cornell7 - Nocturnes: Matisse, Stevens and Schwartz; Frost and Jarrell8 - Working Through the Night9 - Cloud and Mistake: Joyce and Yeats10 - Elegy for Us All: Lorca, Beckett, Alberti11 - Open Window: Whitman, Stevens, Olson12 - Harmony of Consciousness13 - Open Door: Back to the Studio14 - The Sublime: Looking Again NowEpilogueReferencesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations

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