Mark Rothko
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007. Softbound. Color illustrated printed wraps. 238, [3] pp., 38 full-page color plates, many other smaller bw and a few color images. As New. Item #104888
ISBN: 9657161517
Text is in English and Hebrew. Includes essays by Christopher Rothko and Mordechai Omer, Esther Dotan, and John Gage (reprinted from the National Gallery of Art’s Rothko Retrospective 1988 exhibition catalogue, and Natalie Kosoi, with biographical notes by Ahuva Israel. Features 38 paintings. Arranged chronologically, the exhibition follows the development of Rothko’s work from his early, socially conscious paintings completed during the Depression years; Surrealist, biomorphic-abstract works of the early to middle 1940s, which were influenced largely by Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”; paintings of deconstructed forms from his completely abstract “multiforms” of the late 1940s; classic paintings of the 1950s, which are distinguished by an emphasis on pure pictorial elements such as color, surface, and structure; and the dark paintings of his late years. Arranged chronologically, the exhibition follows the development of Rothko’s work from his early, socially conscious paintings completed during the Depression years; Surrealist, biomorphic-abstract works of the early to middle 1940s, which were influenced largely by Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”; paintings of deconstructed forms from his completely abstract “multiforms” of the late 1940s; classic paintings of the 1950s, which are distinguished by an emphasis on pure pictorial elements such as color, surface, and structure; and the dark paintings of his late years.
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