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Robert Motherwell on paper : drawings, prints, collages

Title
Robert Motherwell on paper : drawings, prints, collages / edited by David Rosand ; essays by David Rosand [and others].
Author
Motherwell, Robert.
Publication
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

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Rosand, David.
Description
208 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
Summary
  • The Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was best known as a painter, but he also created a remarkable body of works on paper. The drawings, prints, and collages in this book show a more intimate side of his visual sensibility; they reveal the very personal "handwriting" of the artist as he responded to the subtleties of paper, both as a medium and a material. Motherwell was in fact a most extraordinary draftsman, as this volume testifies.
  • Reproduced in color and in a generous format are more than a hundred of the artist's finest works on paper. The book is published to accompany an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University - an exhibition that was conceived and developed in discussions with the artist during the final year of his life. For this celebration of Motherwell's creative legacy, David Rosand has gathered a distinguished group of contributors.
  • Together, their essays on different aspects of Motherwell's work create a complex picture of a multifaceted artist.
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Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Jan.-March, 1997 and at two other galleries through May, 1998.
  • "In association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204) and index.
Contents
Preface: Gesture, Variation, Continuity / David Rosand -- "My I": Toward an Iconography of the Self / David Rosand -- The "Original Creative Principle": Motherwell and Psychic Automatism / Arthur C. Danto -- Provisional Dualism: Robert Motherwell and Zen / Stephen Addiss -- Robert Motherwell: Working Through the Night / Mary Ann Caws.
ISBN
0810942941 (clothbound)
LCCN
96019574
OCLC
  • 34640808
  • ocm34640808
  • SCSB-9396525
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries