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Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy

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Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell’s abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead’s highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he continued to espouse Whitehead’s processist theories as germane to his art throughout his life. This book examines how Whitehead’s process philosophy—inspired by quantum theory and focusing on the ongoing ingenuity of dynamic forces of energy rather than traditional views of inert substances—set the stage for Motherwell’s future art. This book will be of interest to scholars in twentieth-century modern art, philosophy of art and aesthetics, and art history.

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ISBN: 9780367210441
Publication date: 16th July 2020
Author: Robert (Virginia Commonwealth University) Hobbs
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 114 pages
Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
Genres: Individual artists, art monographs
Theory of art
History of art
Philosophy: aesthetics
Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
Paintings and painting