Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds by Mary Ann Caws
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.
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Summary
A personal exploration of Robert Motherwell and his work by a close friend, this study includes discussion on his paintings, drawings and collages in relation to the wide range of literature with which he was involved. It includes rare photographs and interviews.
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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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CIN0231096445G
9780231096447
0231096445
Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds by Mary Ann Caws
Used - Good
Hardback
Columbia University Press
1996-03-27
264
N/A
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