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Robert Motherwell : elegy to the Spanish Republic.

Title
Robert Motherwell : elegy to the Spanish Republic.
Publication
  • New York : Dominique Lévy, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Motherwell, Robert
  • Dominique Lévy (Gallery), host institution, publisher.
Description
119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 32 cm
Summary
Robert Motherwell (1915-91) came to abstraction not through painting, but through philosophy, poetry and art history. While studying at Stanford, he was introduced to modernism and symbolism; Mallarmé's dictum, 'To paint, not the thing, but the effect it provides', would prove essential in Motherwell's work. Elegy to the Spanish Republic is perhaps the most literal example of this influence. Begun in 1948, the series, comprising some 150 canvases, was the artist's 'funeral song for something once cared about' in abstract pictorial form. Exploring the inextricable links between poetry, politics, writing and painting revealed in the history of the series, this volume includes Harold Rosenberg's 'A Bird for Every Bird', Federico García Lorca's 'Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías', notes and writings by Motherwell on the Spanish Civil War, scholarly essays and rare archival material.
Alternative Title
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic
  • Elegies to the Spanish Republic
Subject
  • Motherwell, Robert > Exhibitions
  • 1900-1999
  • Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • New York school of art
  • Art > Political aspects > 20th century
  • Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Art and the war
  • Spain > Influence. > Civil War, 1936-1939
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Art
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Dominique Lévy Gallery from November 4, 2015-January 9, 2016.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Acknowlegements / Dominique Levy -- All elegies are black and white / Barbara Guest -- Through a glass, darkly / David Anfam -- LLanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías) / Federico García Lorca -- Paintings -- Works on paper -- Robert Motherwell's persistent question / John Yau -- A bird for every bird / Harold Rosenberg -- Black or white / Robert Motherwell -- A personal recollection / Robert Motherwell.
ISBN
  • 9781944379001
  • 1944379002
OCLC
936117081
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library