Matta, the First Decade

'''Miller, Nancy. Matta, the First Decade.''' Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis U, 1982.

On Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren (Robert Matta, b. 1911). Essays and interview in this exhibition catalog discuss Matta's break with Surrealism and the New York School over his interest in science, mathematical systems, and technology. Matta began to use futuristic imagery in 1943, partly in homage to Marcel Duchamp. From 1944 through the immediate post-war period, machine/human hybrids began to people Matta's art. Distorted by tension, terror, and anger, they reflect victimization and the horrors of war.