"This volume ... evolved from 'Frames of viewing: seeing Rothko', a symposium organized by Getty Research Institute and held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 27-28 February 2002"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Irreconcilable Rothko -- Rothko's frame of mind -- Marginal difference in Rothko's abstraction -- Plates -- Staring into space: relaxing effect of Rothko's painting on critics in the 1950s -- Transformations -- Existential allegory of the Rothko chapel -- Dis-orientation: Rothko's inverted canvases -- Rothko and repetition -- Scenes and details: Rothko sketchbook from the late 1930s -- Rothko's "Marshall Jenkins" sketchbook -- Rothko's "scribble book" -- Reading Rothko: selected bibliography of his written works.
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