1. Introduction
2. Robert Motherwell, Harvard, and Alfred North Whitehead
3. Motherwell’s Whitehead: The Felt Quality of Reality
4. Surrealism’s Psychic Automatism, Motherwell’s Plastic Automatism, and Whitehead’s Process
5. Motherwell’s Collage Aesthetic
6. Whitehead’s Process and Susanne K. Langer’s Symbol
7. Conclusion: Material Means, Immaterial Results
Appendix A: Metaphors as Whiteheadian Prehensive Tools
Appendix B: Intimacy and Ideology: Stéphane Mallarmé’s Materiality and Louis Althusser’s Aboutness
Appendix C: Dore Ashton: The Arabesque
Biography
Robert Hobbs has served as associate professor at Cornell University and long-term visiting professor at Yale University; he has also held the Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.
