Robert Motherwell Dore Ashton 1983 Abbeville Albright-Knox First Edition HC DJ

by Dore Ashton, Jack Flam

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Epilonian Books presents ... Robert Motherwell ISBN:0896593878 Author:Ashton, Dore; Buck, Robert Publisher:Abbeville Press /Albright-Knox Art Gallery Release Date:1983 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Very Good Sku: 20250814021 Notes: Abbeville Press, New York [Published date: 1983]. Hardcover, 154 pp; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions ; 23 x 29 cm. First edition. In very good condition by very good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light edgewear and a bit of rubbing; now protected in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library.[From front jacket flap] Robert Motherwell has been a dominant figure in contemporary art for the past forty years, since his emergence as a leading figure in that pivotal group of painters generally referred to as the Abstract Expressionists. As a painter, printmaker and collagist, his contributions to the maturation and international importance of modern American art have been unsurpassed. Motherwell's first period of productivity coincided with the cataclysmic events of the 1930s and 40s, culminating in World War II. His art is, to this day, deeply involved with the struggles and suffering of that period. Recurring themes in his work, most notably in the Elegy series, remind one continuously of that international conflict of unparalleled magnitude, and his pain

• Publisher: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1983
• ISBN: 9780896593879
• Condition: Very Good

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