Book

Motherwell, Robert.

Robert Motherwell on paper : drawings, prints, collages / edited by David Rosand ; essays by David Rosand [and others].

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

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.

Motherwell, Robert -- Exhibitions

Motherwell, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation

Rosand, David.

Wallach Art Gallery.

March Art Gallery.

Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.

Exhibition catalog.

"In association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallace Art Gallery, Columbia University."

Exhibition itinerary: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, January-March 1997; Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Virginia, September-November 1997; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, March-May 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index.

Preface : gesture, variation, continuity ; "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.

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