Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the leading American Abstract Expressionist painters, was also a theorist and exponent of the movement. This book presents the artist's writings about art includes public lectures, essays, and interviews. It features an informative introductory essay, rigorous annotation, and illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(14) Dore Ashton Notes on Mondrian and Chirico, 1942 15(5) Review of Art of this Century, ca. 1943 20(3) Note on Modern Art, ca. 1943 23(1) Preface to Apollinaire's the Cubist Painters, 1944 24(3) The Modern Painter's World, 1944 27(9) Plate Caption in Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, 1944 36(2) Review of Calder's Three Young Rats, 1944 38(2) Painters' Objects, 1944 40(4) Preface to Mondrian's Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, 1945 44(2) Personal Statement, 1945 46(2) Review of Henry Moore's Sculpture and Drawings, 1945 48(2) Preface to Paalen's Form and Sense, ca. 1945 50(3) Statement, 1946 53(1) Beyond the Aesthetic, 1946 54(3) Statement, 1947 57(1) Editorial Preface to Possibilities I, 1947 58(1) Prefatory Note to Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, 1948 59(2) Prefactory Note to Jean Arp's on My Way, 1948 61(2) A Tour of the Sublime, 1948 63(4) Preliminary Notice to Apollinaire's the Cubist Painters, 1949 67(2) Preliminary Notice to Kahnweiler's the Rise of Cubism, 1949 69(3) Preliminary Notice to Raymond's from Baudelaire to Surrealism, 1949 72(3) A Personal Expression, 1949 75(6) Reflections on Painting Now, 1949 81(4) Abstract Art and the Real, 1949 85(1) Black or White, 1950 86(2) For David Smith, 1950 88(1) Preface to Duthuit's the Fauvist Painters, 1950 89(4) The New York School, 1950 93(6) Expressionism, ca. 1950 99(2) A Statement and Introduction to the Illustrations in Modern Artists in America, 1951 101(2) Notes on Cy Twombly, 1951 103(1) Preface and Introduction to the Dada Painters and Poets, 1951 104(50) Preface [``The School of New York''], 1951 154(2) Postscript to the Preface [``The School of New York''], 1951 156(2) What Abstract Art Means to Me, 1951 158(2) The Rise and Continuity of Abstract Art, 1951 160(2) Apropos ``Traditional'' and ``Modern'' Methods of Teaching Art, 1952 162(4) Is the French Avant-Garde Overrated? 1953 166(2) Preface to a Joseph Cornell Exhibition, 1953 168(2) Symbolism, 1954 170(6) The Painter and the Audience, 1954 176(4) Of Form and Content, ca. 1954 180(1) The Artist and Modern Society, 1955 181(4) The Artist's Life, 1956 185(1) Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin, 1957 186(2) The Significance of Miro, 1959 188(6) Lecture with Charles R. Hulbeck, 1959 194(4) Statement for ``Conversations with Artists,'' 1960 198(4) What Should a Museum Be? 1961 202(3) Painting as Existence: An Interview with David Sylvester, 1962 205(7) Homage to Franz Kline, 1962 212(2) A Process of Painting, 1964 214(4) David Smith: A Major American Sculptor, 1965 218(4) Plate Caption for the Stedelijk Museum Catalogue, 1966 222(2) Statement, 1967 224(1) On Jackson Pollock, 1967 225(5) On Rothko, 1967 230(2) On the ``Lyric Suite,'' 1969 232(4) Interview and Letter to Michel Ragon, 1969 236(7) Statement on the ``Open'' Series, 1969 243(2) Motherwell Muses, 1969 245(2) Thoughts on Drawing, 1970 247(3) On the Humanism of Abstraction: The Artist Speaks, 1970 250(6) Statements Before Congress, 1970 256(10) The Universal Language of Children's Art, and Modernism, 1970 266(5) On Rothko, a Eulogy, 1970 271(4) Introduction to Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, 1971 275(5) Statement on Radicalism in the Visual Arts, 1971 280(2) A Recollection of David Smith and the 1950s, 1972 282(4) Introduction to the Journal of Eugene Delacroix, 1972 286(2) Statement on Picasso, 1974 288(1) The New York School (and Symbolism), ca. 1976 289(1) Art and Reality, ca. 1976 290(1) Parisian Artists in Exile: New York 1939--45, 1977 291(17) Provincetown and Days Lumberyard: A Memoir, 1978 308(4) Words of the Painter, 1978 312(3) Presentation of an Award to Erick Hawkins, 1979 315(2) The International World of Modernist Art, 1980 317(2) Notes for a Joyce Symposium, 1980 319(4) In Memoriam: Anthony Smith, 1981 323(2) Journal Entry, ca. 1981 325(2) Reflections on Abstract Art, 1982 327(4) Foreword to William C. Seitz's Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, 1983 331(5) Kafka's Visual Recoil: A Note (For Dore Ashton), 1983 336(3) Animating Rhythm, 1984 339(1) Response: When is a Painting Finished? 1985 340(3) On Not Becoming an Academic, 1986 343(3) A Personal Recollection, 1986 346(5) Nomination of Jasper Johns to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1988 351(2) Bibliography 353(14) Katy Rogers List of Illustrations 367(2) Index 369