The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art

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Rothko, Mark

One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903–1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of his varied and complex views, his heirs indicate that he occasionally spoke of the existence of such a manuscript to friends and colleagues. Stored in a New York City warehouse since the artist’s death more than thirty years ago, this extraordinary manuscript, titled The Artist’s Reality, is now being published for the first time.

 

“Shows Rothko’s ideas on the modern art world, art history, myth, beauty, the challenges of being an artist in society and what he felt was the true nature of American art.” — reviewed by Robert Genn.

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