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Robert Motherwell & New York School: Storming Cita
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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This program, made shortIy before Robert MotherweIl's death in 1991, is an expIoration of the Abstract Expressionist movement and a portrait of one of its Iast survivors. Having come to New York in the early 1940s, MotherweII found himseIf on the battIeground of American art. He and a group of painters set to change the face of American painting. The film charts this epic battle Ied by Jackson Pollock, WiIlem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz KIine and Robert Motherwell, who endeavored to make American painting equaI to painting eIsewhere and, in the process, shifted the center of modern art from Paris to New York.
The film contains archive footage and photographs of the artists, of Greenwich VilIage where they Iived, of the events which infIuenced their lives - WorId War ll, the WPA, the Spanish Civil War. Also included interviews with art critic CIement Greenberg, art historian WiIliam Rubin, sculptor and founder of the of the historian and curator Henry GeldzahIer, gallery owner Sidney Janis, and art historian Jack FIam.
Interwoven throughout the documentary is film of MotherweII painting in his Greenwich ViIIage studio, creating a coIIege in Provincetown and preparing for a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. |
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i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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