Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting

Name: Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775754385
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Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting offers a detailed exploration of the distinguished Abstract Expressionist's artistic journey. The book delves into Motherwell's evolution from Surrealism to abstraction, highlighting how his powerful gestural works reflect expressionism and austerity with political and humanitarian undertones. It features analyses of his major series over a fifty-year career, examines his connection to nineteenth-century French painting, and explores his use of Spanish techniques and ochre pigment, underlining their broader cultural and avant-garde significance.
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts and scholars of modern art, Abstract Expressionism, and those interested in the interplay between art, politics, and philosophy. It suits readers seeking an intellectual and comprehensive study of Robert Motherwell's oeuvre.

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An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes.

Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist's turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career.

The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell's art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell's use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775754385

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 August 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 100 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Susan Davidson
Text by Simon Kelly
Text by Monica McTighe
Text by Sarah Rich
Text by Jennifer Cohen
Designed by Peter Willberg

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 300.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1500g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

In 1940s New York City ROBERT MOTHERWELL (*1915, Aberdeen, WA-1991, Provincetown, MA) entered a milieu of artists whose radical new style of painting came to be known as Abstract Expressionism. A theorist of this informal group-including artists such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning-he taught throughout his life.