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Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko
HATJE CANTZ

Hardcover, 11 x 12.25 in. / 204 pgs / 102 color / 52 bw. | 6/2/2001 | Not available
$85.00



Mark Rothko: 1968 Clearing Away
PACE PUBLISHING

A handsome introduction to Rothko’s rarely seen jewel-like paintings on paper of the late ’60s

Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 96 pgs / 45 color / 3 bw. | 1/4/2022 | Not available
$45.00



Mark Rothko: 1968 Clearing AwayMark Rothko: 1968 Clearing Away

Published by Pace Publishing.
Text by Eleanor Nairne, Christopher Rothko.

This volume brings together key paintings from Rothko’s (1903–70) renowned body of work made in the late 1960s—a significant and prolific period in the artist’s life.
In the wake of a particularly difficult bout of ill health, Rothko was forced to reduce the scale of his practice from his signature monumental canvas to more intimately sized paper. Despite physical limitations, Rothko worked feverishly with a renewed enthusiasm for color, delighted by the effect of acrylic paint, which he had newly discovered.
In an intimate introduction, Christopher Rothko writes of the artist's shift in scale and the parallel between the viewer's experience with the paintings and his father's own creation of them. Eleanor Nairne explores Rothko's trajectory, tracing his early works and experience painting through the Seagram paintings and chapel commission to these works on paper. The book is produced on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at Pace Gallery's new gallery space in London's Hanover Square.



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Pace Publishing

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 96 pgs / 45 color / 3 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 113   

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Mark RothkoMark Rothko

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Essays by Marjorie B. Cohn, Franz Meyer, Eliza E. Rathbone, Jeffrey Weiss and Oliver Wick.

Mark Rothko is one of the towering figures of Abstract Expressionism, and of twentieth-century painting as a whole. His paintings, predominantly in a large format and featuring horizontal layers of pigment on a monochrome foundation, occupy a permanent place in our collective pictorial memory as an epitome of heroic Modernism. This beautifully produced oversize monograph presents over 100 of his works in full-color plates. By considering Rothko's central groups of works from all creative periods--among them the Rothko Room in the Phillips Collection and the Harvard Murals at Harvard University--this book documents the artist's struggle to arrive at "a consummated experience between picture and onlooker." Rothko's adamant insistence on controlling the presentation of his works set him apart from the art scene as early as the 1950s. His pictures were to be hung closely together in small rooms, in which soft lighting and imposing scale were to provide an immediate viewing experience. This book attempts to recreate that atmosphere with a large, uninterrupted plate section that brings to life the vibrancy and power of these paintings. In addition to more than 100 color works, Mark Rothko includes essays about specific groups of work, an extensive, year by year, descriptive chronology of his life and work, and an exhaustive bibliography of writings about him from the past five years. It is an essential addition to any collection on twentieth-century art.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 12.25 in. / 204 pgs / 102 color / 52 bw.

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Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2001 p. 165   

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ISBN 9783775710275 TRADE
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