Robert Motherwell

by H. Harvard Arnason, Robert Motherwell (Collaborator), Dore Ashton (Introduction)

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.

Genres: Art

250 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

American art historian and administrator. He was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and studied there at the University of Manitoba, and subsequently at Northwestern and Princeton Universities. From 1947to1960 he was professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, from 1951 concurrently holding the post of director of the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis. He is best known by a wider public for his major publication A History of Modern Art. First published in 1969, this appeared in a second edition in 1977. Since Arnason's death a number of further editions have appeared, revised and updated by other hands, the most recent (the 5th) in 2004. Covering the mid-19th century to the present day and including over 1000 illustrations, it is the most comprehensive account in English in a single volume.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the most beautiful monogram on Motherwell. Purely amazing work and still one of my favourite artists.