Seeing Rothko
By: edited by Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow.
Contributors: Phillips, Glenn, 1974-; Crow, Thomas E., 1948-; Getty Research Institute.
Series: Issues & debates
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Rothko, Mark, -- 1903-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: This volume explores the profound and varied responses elicited by Russian-born American painter Mark Rothko's (1903-1970) most compelling creations. Rothko was classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter". Throughout his career, Rothko was concerned with what other people experienced when they looked at his canvases. As his work shifted from figurative imagery to luminous fields of color, his concern expanded to the setting in which his paintings were exhibited. In a series of analytic, personal, and even poetic essays by contemporary scholars, Rothko's works are analyzed. This volume also reproduces a "Scribble Book," in which Rothko jotted down his ideas on teaching art to children, and a sketchbook, both dating to the early years of the artist's career.
Notes: "This volume ... evolved from 'Frames of viewing: seeing Rothko', a symposium organized by Getty Research Institute and held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 27-28 February 2002"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Irreconcilable Rothko; title: Rothko's frame of mind; title: Marginal difference in Rothko's abstraction; title: Plates; title: Staring into space: relaxing effect of Rothko's painting on critics in the 1950s; title: Transformations; title: Existential allegory of the Rothko chapel; title: Dis-orientation: Rothko's inverted canvases; title: Rothko and repetition; title: Scenes and details: Rothko sketchbook from the late 1930s; title: Rothko's "Marshall Jenkins" sketchbook; title: Rothko's "scribble book"; title: Reading Rothko: selected bibliography of his written works.