Writings on Art

Mark Rothko, Miguel Lopez-Remiro, Miguel Lopez-Remiro

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English

Yale University
01 March 2006

Art & Architecture; Theory of art; Individual artists, art monographs; Philosophy: aesthetics

The first collection of Mark Rothko’s writings, which range the entire span of his career

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This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the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

By: Mark Rothko
Introduction and notes by: Miguel Lopez-Remiro
Edited by: Miguel Lopez-Remiro
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780300114409
ISBN 10: 0300114400
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 March 2006
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Rothko was born in Russia and came to the United States with his family in 1913. A major figure in New York's Abstract Expressionist movement, he has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Guggenheim Museum and other major museums around the world.

Reviews for Writings on Art

Writings on Art brings Rothko's genius into full and more personal light. -Lance Esplund, New York Sun -- Lance Esplund New York Sun 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... This book will change the way Rothko is understood and should be required reading for scholars of his era. -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly