About Rothko

About Rothko
ISBN-10
0195033485
ISBN-13
9780195033489
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
1983
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Dore Ashton

Description

In this full-scale study of the artist, Dore Ashton presents a portrait of an intellectually restless man of unquenchable thirst and hunger, whose work provided him with a passport to a more luminous world. With her immense knowledge of Rothko's oeuvre and a sensitive understanding of his psychology, the author analyzes the singular aesthetic quality of his work and sets it in relation to the turbulent cultural climate in which he functioned. She covers the range of Rothko's career -- from his early strivings in expressionism to his stylistic maturation as part of the New York School to the creation of his late masterwork, the murals for the Houston Chapel. ISBN 0-19-503348-5 : $19.95.

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