Motherwell, Robert

New York, 1944

Book ID: 76806

46 titles (47 volumes), all copies first editions, first printings, very good to fine condition with no interior marks. The Documents of Modern Art (conceived and edited by Robert Motherwell and published by George Wittenborn from 1944-1972) comprising sixteen titles: 1. The Cubist Painters, 2. Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, 3. The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist, 4. Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings, 5. Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 6. On My Way: Poetry and Painting in Particular (includes two original woodcuts by Jean Arp), 7. Beyond Painting, 8. The Dada Painters and Poets (includes the two rare inserted manifestos by tzara and huelsenbeck), 9. The Rise of Cubism, 10. From Baudelaire to Surrealism, 11. The Fauvist Painters, 12. Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, 13. (withdrawn by publisher), 14. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 15. The Notebooks of Paul Klee Vol. 1: The Thinking Eye, 16. Essays on Art, 17. The Notebooks of Paul Klee Vol. 2: The Nature of Nature. Problems of Contemporary Art (1945-1954): 1. Form and Sense, 2. The Grass Roots of Art, 3. The Way Beyond Art: The Work of Herbert Bayer, 4. Possibilities 1, 5. Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections, 6. Taliesin Drawings, 7. The Lost Art: A Survey of One Thousand Years of Stained Glass. Documents of Twentieth Century Art (1971-1993): 1. Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, 2. My Galleries and Painters, 3. Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918, 4. Henry Moore on Sculpture, 5. Arp on Arp: Poems, Essays, Memoirs by Jean Arp, 6. Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views, 7. My Life in Sculpture, 8. The Blaue Reiter Almanac, 9. Functions of Painting, 10. The Futurist Manifestos, 11. The Tradition of Constructivism, 12. Flight Out of Time, 13. Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, 14. Art As Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt, 15. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902-, 16. The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay, 17. The Autobiography of Surrealism, 18. The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology 2nd Revised Edition, 19. Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (2 vols.), 20. Marcel Duchamp, Notes, 21. The New Art - The New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian, 22. Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews, 23. German Expressionism: Documents from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism.