Robert Motherwell : what art holds

Author(s)

• Caws, Mary Ann
• Motherwell, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Robert Motherwell : what art holds

Mary Ann Caws

（Interpretations in art）

Columbia University Press, c1996

Note

Bibliography: p. [213]-214

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA28016441
• ISBN:
  • 0231096445
• LCCN: 95020819
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 227 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N6537.M67
  • DC20 : 759.13
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motherwell, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Surrealism -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA14346299