Robert Motherwell with pen and brush

The author considers his work and interest in relation to those of other Abstract Expressionists as well as to the work of surrealists. The book highlights his deep atraction to France and French literature and art, and his concert with the idea of elegy and the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War. His singulary Americanspirit provided him with a manner of painting and thinking unique among the Abstract Expressionists, as well as a distictive and highler personal filter through which to interpret his fascination with European literature and history.