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Seeing Rothko / edited by Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Issues & debatesPublication details: London : Tate, 2006.Description: ix, 290 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781854377418 (pbk.) :
  • 9781854377418 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.13 PHI
LOC classification:
  • ND237.R725 S42 2006
Contents:
Introduction: Irreconcilable Rothko; Part 1: Rothko\'s frame of mind by Dore Ashton; The marginal difference in Rothko\'s abstraction by Thomas Crow; Plates; Staring into space by Sarah K. Rich; transformations by John Elderfield; the existential allegory of the rothko chapel; Dis-Orientation: Rothko\'s Inverted Canvases by Jeffrey Weiss; Rothko and Repetition by Briony Fer; Part 2: Scenes and details by Charles Harrison; Rothko\'s Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook; Rothko\'s Scribble Book; Reading Rothko: A selected biography of his written work by Miguel Lopez-Remiro; Biographical noes on the contributors.
Summary: Mark Rothko was always concerned with what people experienced when they looked at his canvases. This collection of essays explains how Rothko's most compelling creations elicit profound and varied responses. The book also reproduces Rothko's 'Scribble Book', containing his ideas on teaching art to children.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 759.13 PHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 203497

Originally published: Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Research Institute, 2005.

Published in association with the Getty Research Institute.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-271) and index.

Introduction: Irreconcilable Rothko; Part 1: Rothko\'s frame of mind by Dore Ashton; The marginal difference in Rothko\'s abstraction by Thomas Crow; Plates; Staring into space by Sarah K. Rich; transformations by John Elderfield; the existential allegory of the rothko chapel; Dis-Orientation: Rothko\'s Inverted Canvases by Jeffrey Weiss; Rothko and Repetition by Briony Fer; Part 2: Scenes and details by Charles Harrison; Rothko\'s Marshall Jenkins Sketchbook; Rothko\'s Scribble Book; Reading Rothko: A selected biography of his written work by Miguel Lopez-Remiro; Biographical noes on the contributors.

Mark Rothko was always concerned with what people experienced when they looked at his canvases. This collection of essays explains how Rothko's most compelling creations elicit profound and varied responses. The book also reproduces Rothko's 'Scribble Book', containing his ideas on teaching art to children.

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