WRITINGS ON ART

ROTHKO, M.

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ISBN:978-0-300-11440-9
EAN:9780300114409
Editorial: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fecha de la edición:2006
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:168
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE DE LOS SIGLOS XIX-XXI

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 "Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art". Rothko's 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 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 This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934-69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the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 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 Rothko's "The Artist's 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.