ART 236 : Modern Art History

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as a passport to a more luminous world." Drawing on Dore Ashton's countless conversations with Rothko himself,About Rothko is the best full-scale critical biography of this intellectually restless but deeply committed artist."

This volume reproduces more than 100 of Mark Rothko's paintings, prints and drawings, including many of his rectangle paintings. It features commentary on various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists, and a chronology of his life."

One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists and greatest painters of the 20th century   Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting. Rothko characterized this relationship as "a consummated experience between picture and onlooker".