The Rothko Book

Mark Rothko (1903-70) was one of the greatest painters of the twentieth. His mature works, often featuring large rectangular expanses of colour that appear to hover or float over the canvas, are intensely charged with symbolic meaning and human emotion. The people who weep before my paintings, he told an interviewer, are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.

The Rothko Book is both a practical manual for discovering and understanding the artist and the complete and authoritative guide to his life and work. Contents:
Introduction
1. Early Years
2. The Spirit of Myth
3. The Irascibles
4. The First Picture
5. The Eyes of the Sensitive Observer
6. Containing Light Techniques
7. Rothko on Rothko
8. Critics on Rothko
9. Collections
10. Chronology
11. Reading
12. Index