Writings on Art
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300114400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Silences Broken" according to Grady Harp. Mark Rothko created some of the more spiritually radiant paintings of any artist form any ear. That his paintings were abstractions - blocks of color conjoined by a marriage of midline intercourse of pigment - makes this accomplishment something that still befuddles art critics and historians and viewers alike. Here at last, some thirty-six years after his death b. "Great insight" according to Jack Peterson. I am a collector of photography - primarily vancouver-based artists - but rothko's life and work has recently become a fascinating peripheral subject, by tangential association. This book provided exactly what I was looking for: a raw, uncut glimpse of a necessarily complex artist. For anyone studying Rothko this is a definite must-read.. Very insightful I learned a lot about Rothko and his philosophy. I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the artistic process and what it means to be a professional artist. It was a very enlightening book. I took off a star because the editor added EVERYTHING rather than curating a thoughtful selection of documents. Some of the documents included add very little to any conversa
Gathering all of the artist's writings held in public collections as well as texts in Rothko's descendants' hands, this book brings to light many of his theoretical stances, practical considerations and personal revelations. Editor López-Remiro's introduction contextualizes the writings and doubles as a handy chronology of Rothko's life and career. All rights reserved. Arranged chronologically from 1934, the year after his first solo show, to 1969, the year before his suicide, the approximately 100 texts consist of letters to curators and to artists like Barnett Newman, Herbert Ferber and Robert Motherwell; notes about his approach to the tea
While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko’s writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. Writings on Art fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documentsincluding short essays, letters, statements, and lectureswritten by Rothko over the course of his career. Rothko’s other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist’s life and work is also included.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