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Robert Motherwell's World War Two Collages: Signifying War as Topical Spectacle in Abstract Expressionist Art

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Robert Motherwell's World War Two Collages: Signifying War as Topical Spectacle in Abstract Expressionist Art

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Although Robert Motherwell's collage oeuvre has traditionally been equated with either purist formal values or a whimsical autobiographical content, his earliest collages in the 1940s were devoted to the political theme of World War II. In contrast to the Abstract Expressionists' mythical treatment of the war, Motherwell's collages are unique in their more explicit reference to topical media representations of the Second World War. The Abstract Expressionists' mythologising of World War II has usually been interpreted as a radical artistic and psycho-cultural response to political tragedy itself. However, this article argues that the Abstract Expressionists' recourse to symbolic mythical tropes was primarily an attempt to reconstitute a stable and traditional form of historical consciousness within modern visual culture that was threatened by the contingency of mass-cultural discourses and the rise of media spectacle associated with the war. Motherwell's appropriation of ephemeral journalistic war imagery in his collages can be seen as a polemical gesture that challenged the Abstract Expressionist Mythmakers' idealist, mythical response to the war, which evaded the socio-political determinants of modern history and the allegorical signifying systems constitutive of modern historical consciousness.

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