Writings on art / Mark Rothko ; edited and with an introduction, annotations, and chronology by Miguel López-Remiro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"New training for future artists and art lovers," 1934 -- "Scribble book," ca. 1934 -- Sketchbook, ca. 1934 -- The ten : Whitney dissenters, 1938 -- "A comparative analysis," ca. 1941 -- "The ideal teacher," ca. 1941 -- "Indigenousness," ca. 1941 -- "The satisfaction of the creative impulse," ca. 1941 -- Manuscript drafts of a letter to the editor by Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, 1943 -- Rothko and Gottlieb's letter to the editor, 1943 -- "The portrait and the modern artist," by Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, 1943 -- Comments on The omen of the eagle, 1943 -- Brief autobiography, ca. 1945 -- Letter to Emily Genauer, 1945 -- "I adhere to the reality of things," 1945 -- Personal statement, 1945 -- Letter to the editor, 1945 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, 1945 -- Introduction to First exhibition paintings : Clyfford Still, 1946 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, June 1946 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, August 1946 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, 1947 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1947 -- Letter to Clay Spohn, 1947 -- "The ides of art : the attitudes of ten artists on their art and contemporaneousness," 1947 -- "The romantics were prompted," 1947 -- Letter to Clay Spohn, February 1948 -- Letter to Clay Spohn, May 1948 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, 1949 -- Letter to Clay Spohn, 1949 -- "Statement on his attitude in painting," 1949 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, April 1950 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, June 1950 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, July 1950 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, August 7, 1950 -- Letter to Barnett Newman, August 1950 -- "How to combine architecture, painting, and sculpture," 1951 -- Notes from an interview by William Seitz, 1952 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, August 1952 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, September 1952 -- Letter to Lloyd Goodrich, 1952 -- Notes from an interview by William Seitz, March 1953 -- Notes from an interview by William Seitz, April 1953 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, May 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, July 14, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, July 28, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, ca. August 1954 -- Letter to Petronel Lukens, August 1954 -- Letter to Petronel Lukens, September 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 20, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 25, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, September 27, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, October 20, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, October 23, 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, November 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, December 1954 -- Letter to Petronel Lukens, December 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, ca. 1954 -- "Whenever one begins to speculate," ca. 1954 -- "Relation to one's own past," ca. 1954 -- "Space in painting," ca. 1954 -- Letter to Katharine Kuh, 1955 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 7, 1955 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 11, 1955 -- Letter to Lawrence Calcagno, 1956 -- Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1957 -- Letter to Rosalind Irvine, 1957 -- Letter to the editor, 1957 -- Address to Pratt Institute, 1958 -- Letter to Ida Kohlmeyer, ca. 1958 -- John Fischer, "The easy chair : Mark Rothko, portrait of the artist as an angry man," 1970 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber and Bernard Reis, 1959 -- Letter to Elise Asher and Stanley Kunitz, 1959 -- Letter to Milton Avery, 1960 -- Notecards, ca. 1950-1960 -- Letter to the Whitechapel Gallery, 1961 -- "A talk with Mark Rothko," 1961 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, 1962 -- Tribute to Milton Avery, 1965 -- Letter to Bernard Reis, 1966 -- Letter to Norman Reid, 1966 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 7, 1967 -- Letter to Herbert Ferber, July 19, 1967 -- Letter to Elise Asher and Stanley Kunitz, 1967 -- Acceptance of Yale University honorary doctorate, 1969.

While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed "Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art". Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. "Writings on Art" fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents, including short essays, letters, statements and lectures, written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated and a chronology of the artist's life and work is also included. This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934-69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. As was revealed in Rothko's "The Artist's Reality", what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable and philosophical artist, who was also a passionate and articulate writer.

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