TY - BOOK AU - Weiss,Jeffrey S. AU - Gage,John ED - National Gallery of Art (U.S.) ED - Whitney Museum of American Art ED - Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris. TI - Mark Rothko SN - 0300075057 AV - N6537.R63 A4 1998 U1 - 759.13 22 PY - 1998///] CY - Washington, New Haven, Conn. PB - National Gallery of Art, Yale University Press KW - Rothko, Mark, KW - Painting, American KW - 20th century KW - Painting, Modern KW - United States KW - Painters N1 - Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 3 May-16 Aug. 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 Sept.-29 Nov. 1998; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 8 Jan.-18 April. 1999; Includes bibliographical references; Rothko : color as subject / John Cage -- Rothko's dark paintings : tragedy and void / Barbara Novak and Brian O'Doherty -- Material and immaterial surface : the paintings of Rothko / Carol Mancusi-Ungaro -- Rothko's unknown space / Jeffrey Weiss -- Chronology / Jessica Stewart -- Interviews : Mark Rosenthal and Jeffrey Weiss / Ellsworth Kelly ... [et al.] N2 - In their stunning simplicity, the famous colored rectangle paintings by Mark Rothko suggest, evoke, and endlessly enthrall. This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color one hundred of Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings. The volume features four commentaries by art experts who explore various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's legacy to post-New York School abstraction, and a chronology of the Russian-born artist's life from 1903 to 1970 ER -