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Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Artby Mark Rothko , Christopher RothkoISBN 0300115857 (0-300-11585-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art'Book summary:Mark Rothko, the painter famous for his luminous abstract canvases, spent several years in the late 1930s and early '40s writing a book about the meaning of art. Edited by his son Christopher, Rothko's uncompleted manuscript, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art, reveals a man struggling to make a case for the highest ideals of Western culture at a time when crass popular taste and American regionalism were conspiring against the values he held dear. During these years, Rothko worked in a melancholy Expressionist style that was just beginning to be influenced by Surrealism. The hovering rectangles of color that would put him on the modern art map were still a decade away. While this book will no doubt be important to Rothko scholars, it is a period piece, relying on a form of rhetoric and a belief system that can be exasperating to modern readers. Windy chapters on such topics as "The Integrity of the Plastic Process," studded with references to Plato and Leonardo, "truth" and "unity," are Rothko's stock in trade. He never mentions his own paintings and refers to a few other living artists only in passing. And yet--as Christopher Rothko points out in his clear-eyed and useful introduction--the process of wrestling ideas onto the page may have helped the artist find a personal means of expressing the "tragic emotionality" that he believed to be the essence of all great art. Rothko longed to discover a new, post-Christian "myth" that could express a unified outlook on life by embodying "the world of ideals." Little did he realize at the time that the resolution of his dilemma would be based on a radically new approach to handling paint and using color. Cathy Curtis [via]
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The Essential Mark Rothkoby Klaus Ottmann, Mark RothkoISBN 0810958260 (0-8109-5826-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Mark Rothko'Book summary:Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is generally considered, along with Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), the preeminent artist of his generation. He is closely identified with the New York School, a group of painters that emerged during the 1940s and re-invented American art. Their radical and unique contribution to modern art became known as Abstract Expressionism. Rothko was one of the most prominent pioneers of abstract color painting, and, during a career that spanned five decades, he became America's foremost colorist. During his retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1961, Rothko was asked how long it took him to paint a particular painting that seemed to consist of merely a few large, formless blotches of color on canvas. Rothko dryly responded, "I'm 57 years old and it took me all my life to do it." So how did a 10-year old Russian immigrant boy named Marcus Rothkowitz, who arrived at Ellis Island in 1913 with his mother, become Mark Rothko, one of the greatest American abstract painters? Readers of The Essential Mark Rothko will learn that: In his youth, he wanted to be an actor, and that the theater remained his first love; He was largely self-taught; He painted figuratively for more than half of his life. [via]
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Mark Rothko in New Yorkby Diane Waldman, Mark Rothko , Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumISBN 0892071362 (0-89207-136-2)
Softcover, Guggenheim Museum
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Mark Rothkoby Mark Rothko , Stewart, Tabori and Chang StaffISBN 1556705506 (1-55670-550-6)
Softcover, Stewart, Tabori & Chang
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Rothko'Book summary:This is a postcard book of Mark Rothko, a 20th century painter's work with an introductory text. The book is strongly bound so that a card may be removed and the other cards will remain in place. [via]
Mark Rothko 1903-1970by Mark RothkoISBN 1878283405 (1-878283-40-5)
Softcover, Pace Wildenstein
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- Mark Rothko 1903-1970: ISBN 1854372122 (1-85437-212-2)
Hardcover, Tate Gallery Pub - Mark Rothko 1903-1970: ISBN 0946590621 (0-946590-62-1)
Softcover, Tate Gallery - Mark Rothko 1903-1970: ISBN 094659063X (0-946590-63-X)
Hardcover, Tate Gallery - Mark Rothko 1903-1970: ISBN 1878283405 (1-878283-40-5)
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- Mark Rothko 1903-1970: ISBN 1854372122 (1-85437-212-2)
Mark Rothko 2008 Calendarby Mark RothkoISBN 3832722300 (3-8327-2230-0)
Softcover, Te Neues Pub Group
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Mark Rothko 2008 Poster Calendarby Mark RothkoISBN 3832721134 (3-8327-2113-4)
Softcover, Te Neues Pub Group
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Mark Rothko: January 12-February 10, 1990by Mark Rothko , Pace GalleryISBN 1878283030 (1-878283-03-0)
Hardcover, Pace Gallery
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Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstractionby Mark Rothko , Pace GalleryISBN 0300049617 (0-300-04961-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Mark Rothko: The Chapel Commissionby David Anfam, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Mark RothkoISBN 0939594382 (0-939594-38-2)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Mark Rothko: The Realist Years Selected Works October 31, 2001-January 05, 2002by Klaus Kertess, Mark Rothko , PaceWildenstein (Firm)ISBN 1930743114 (1-930743-11-4)
Hardcover, PaceWildenstein
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Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvasby David Anfam, Mark RothkoISBN 0300074891 (0-300-07489-1)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas'Book summary:This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonne of the work of Mark Rothko, one of the greatest abstract artists of the twentieth century. It documents Rothko's entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in color. An introductory text also investigates every essential feature of Rothko's art.
David Anfam explores the underestimated variety as well as the amazing continuity of Rothko's pictures. These include the images for which Rothko is famous -- the large, hypnotic, and poignant fields of color -- along with almost 400 further pictures that reveal a far less well known figure who was attuned by turns to realism, expressionism, surrealism, and the avantgarde issues of his era. Anfam presents a radical overview of Rothko's achievement, offering an analysis of its sources and themes: these extend from a study of such old masters as Rembrandt and Vermeer to his eventual groundbreaking vision of painting as an environment, expressed in the mural cycles and the architectural framework of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. Anfam pays special attention to the physical makeup of the paintings, as well as to Rothko's innovative sense of space, color, and surface, his complex technical procedures, and the symbolism of the work. This is combined with an account of Rothko's stylistic evolution and its chronology, tracing its development from figuration to an abstract vision imbued with a profound grasp of how the viewer has an interactive role to play in perceiving the works. The volume also includes the most extensive Rothko bibliography ever published. The fruit of almost a decade of research, this monumental publication is thereference pont for all future studies of Rothko's art. [via]
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Mark Rothko, the Seagram Mural Projectby Mark Rothko , Tate GalleryISBN 094659094X (0-946590-94-X)
Hardcover, Tate Gallery Liverpool
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Mark Rothko, Works on Paperby Bonnie Clearwater, American Federation of Arts, Mark Rothko , Mark Rothko FoundationISBN 0933920539 (0-933920-53-9)
Hardcover, Published by Hudson Hills Press in association with the Mark Rothko Foundation and the American Federation of Arts
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Mark Rothko, Works on Paperby Mark Rothko , Bonnie ClearwaterISBN 0714826219 (0-7148-2621-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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Paintings 1948-1969by Mark RothkoISBN 0938608126 (0-938608-12-6)
Softcover, Pace Wildenstein
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Rothko 2007 Calendarby Mark RothkoISBN 0764934791 (0-7649-3479-1)
Softcover, Pomegranate
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Rothko 2007 Calendarby Mark RothkoISBN 3832716971 (3-8327-1697-1)
Softcover, Te Neues Pub Group
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Rothko 2008 Calendarby Mark Rothko , National Gallery of Art (U.S.)ISBN 0764939653 (0-7649-3965-3)
Softcover, Pomegranate
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Writings on Artby Mark Rothko , Miguel Lopez-RemiroISBN 0300114400 (0-300-11440-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writings on Art'Book summary:While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothkos writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artists Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothkos other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents—including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures—written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artists life and work is also included.[via]
This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators.
As was revealed in Rothkos The Artists Reality, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer.More editions of Writings on Art:
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Essays und Briefe 1943-1969by Mark RothkoISBN 3938715030 (3-938715-03-0)
Softcover
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Mark Rothko 2008. Kalenderby Mark RothkoISBN 3411126469 (3-411-12646-9)
Softcover
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Die Wirklichkeit des Künstlersby Mark RothkoISBN 3406528805 (3-406-52880-5)
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Escritos sobre arte 1934-1969/ Writings on Artby Mark Rothko , Jesus Carrillo CastilloISBN 8449319951 (84-493-1995-1)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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