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Robert Goldwater (November 23, 1907 – March 26, 1973) was an American art historian, African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, from 1957 to 1973. He was married to the French artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
A prolific writer on modern art, Goldwater published Artists on Art from the XIV to the XX Century (1945), one of the first compendiums of artists’ writings, as well as several monographic studies of painters and sculptors, including Rufino Tamayo (1947), Vincent van Gogh (1954), Jacques Lipchitz (1954), and Paul Gauguin (1957).
The next stop on our 150th anniversary tour of the libraries of The Met is The Robert Goldwater Library. Tucked away in a mezzanine level of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, the library is nonetheless one of the Museum's largest departmental libraries, supporting the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Overview. Modernist art historian, pioneer African arts scholar and director, Museum of Primitive Art, 1957-63. Goldwater was the son of Sigismund S. Goldwater (1873-1942), an M.D. and visionary commissioner of Hospitals in New York under Mayor La Guardia. Goldwater attended Columbia University, receiving his B. A. in 1929.
1 de oct. de 2013 · This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what ...
The Robert Goldwater Library is part of the Museum's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. It is a noncirculating research library dedicated to the documentation of the visual arts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Native and Precolumbian America.
This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive...
