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Rothko, Mark; Rothko, Christopher

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Acknowledgments

Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (Editor)

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

Acknowledgments

Author

Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00129.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15240

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Marion Kahan for the ultimate discovery; Janet Saines for her excellent advice; Melissa Locker, Lauren Fardig, and Amy Lucas for their research; and Ilya Prizel and William and Sally Scharf for their many years of wisdom and care.

I also wish to thank the staff at Yale University Press, particularly Patricia Fidler for her enthusiasm and vision, Michelle Komie for her guidance and tireless transcription, Jeffrey Schier for his sensitive editing, John Long for his handling of the photographs, Mary Mayer for her production work, Daphne Geismar for her great modernist design, and Julia Derish, an exceptional sleuth for elusive facts.

I thank especially my wife, Lori Cohen, and children, Mischa, Aaron, and Isabel, for their continual inspiration.

Christopher Rothko

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BOOKThe Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00129

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15239

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.

Probably written around 1940–41, this revelatory book discusses Rothko’s ideas on the modern art world, art history, myth, beauty, the challenges of being an artist in society, the true nature of “American art,” and much more. The Artist’s Reality also includes an introduction by Christopher Rothko, the artist’s son, who describes the discovery of the manuscript and the complicated and fascinating process of bringing the manuscript to publication. The introduction is illustrated with a small selection of relevant examples of the artist’s own work as well as with reproductions of pages from the actual manuscript.

The Artist’s Reality will be a classic text for years to come, offering insight into both the work and the artistic philosophies of this great painter.

This is the first edition; the second edition (2023) is also available on the A&AePortal.

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Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date September 2004 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300102536

EISBN 9780300233612

Illustrations 9

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