MARK ROTHKO

This book presents 18 accessibly written essays that address the use of scale, form, and color and the centrality of content across the artists output. The prominent commissions for the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the Seagram Building murals in New York receive extended treatment, as do many of the lesser-known and underappreciated aspects of Rothkos oeuvre, including a reassessment of his late dark canvases and an argument for the relevance of his works on paper. The author also discusses the artists writings of the 1 930s and 1940s...[Read more]