Mark Rothko
With contributions by John Gage, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian O'Doherty, and Mark Rosenthal, This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color more than one hundred of Mark Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, including many of the stunningly simple yet enthralling rectangle paintings for which he is famous. The volume provides commentary on various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's artistic legacy, and a...
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With contributions by John Gage, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian O'Doherty, and Mark Rosenthal, This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color more than one hundred of Mark Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, including many of the stunningly simple yet enthralling rectangle paintings for which he is famous. The volume provides commentary on various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's artistic legacy, and a chronology of the Russian-born artist's life (1903-1970).Author Biography: Jeffrey Weiss is associate curator of twentieth-century art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism, 1909-1917, published by Yale University Press.Kenneth BakerThis book, which reproduces in full color one hundred of Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, is an elegant record of Rothko's work. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Foreword8Lenders to the Exhibition9Preface10Acknowledgments11Notes to the Reader14Catalogue15Rothko: Color as Subject246Rothko's Dark Paintings: Tragedy and Void264Material and Immaterial Surface: The Paintings of Rothko282Rothko's Unknown Space302Chronology331Interviews: Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, and George Segal353Photographic Credits376
\ Kenneth BakerThis book, which reproduces in full color one hundred of Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, is an elegant record of Rothko's work. -- San Francisco Chronicle\ \ \ \ \ Phyllis Tuchman....Weiss's text situates Rothko's oeuvre within an absorbing cultural context....[He] creates a new way to distinguish Rothko's urban achievements from those of, say Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning during their "landscape" years...\ — Art Journal\ \
