Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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Page 292
... Motherwell's elegance is not a matter of style . It comes from deeper wells : mainly from his highly critical and intelligent sense of the accumulated language of modernism and of the way in which his own pictorial impulses relate to ...
... Motherwell's elegance is not a matter of style . It comes from deeper wells : mainly from his highly critical and intelligent sense of the accumulated language of modernism and of the way in which his own pictorial impulses relate to ...
Page 293
... Motherwell's color is never descriptive . Even the more recent arrivals on his palette , for instance the soft ... Motherwell is not an adjective but a noun . It is the collages that most clearly represent the " French " aspect of his ...
... Motherwell's color is never descriptive . Even the more recent arrivals on his palette , for instance the soft ... Motherwell is not an adjective but a noun . It is the collages that most clearly represent the " French " aspect of his ...
Page 294
... Motherwell's collages amount to a definition of their medium . It is the nature of glued paper to look flat , frontal and spreading ; to build its image in planes ; to set up counterpoints between word and shape ; to make one focus on ...
... Motherwell's collages amount to a definition of their medium . It is the nature of glued paper to look flat , frontal and spreading ; to build its image in planes ; to set up counterpoints between word and shape ; to make one focus on ...
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