Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas : Catalogue Raisonne [Anglais] [Relié]

When Mark Rothko (1903-70) started his career in New York in the early 1920s, America had no established art. Before his tragic suicide, he completed a mural series for the Rothko Chapel commissioned by the de Menil family, accomplishing for American painting what the Monet water lilies did for French painting in the 1920s. Recently, Rothko has received renewed attention with a traveling retrospective from the National Gallery, currently at the Whitney Museum in New York. Anfam (Mark Rothko: The Chapel Commission, Menil Foundation, 1996) connects Rothko to major figures in art history with a historical, philosophical, literary, mythical, and psychological framework for the artist's development as a painter. Within the catalog itself the reproductions are grouped chronologically, with a complete concordance. Inscription, collection, provenance, and exhibition and publication information for each painting are also provided, and the book closes with the most extensive bibliography compiled on Rothko to date. Lacking only is a chronology of the artist's life. The catalog will continue with works on paper in additional volumes. A necessary purchase for research and academic libraries.?Ellen Bates, New York
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Somewhere in this volume you can find just about everything you will want to know about what Rothko painted between 1924 and his death in 1970.

...it's needed, it's serious and it's well-produced.... By reproducing every painting in color and supplying complete specifications for each, in chronological order, Anfam gives the reader a better sense of the slow, visceral struggle that is any great artist's path to his or her best work. And Anfam's meticulous unearthing of nearly all of Rothko's literary and art historical sources for his imagery (or lack of imagery) reveals the contest between inclusiveness (that is, acknowledging the huge and multifarious culture of the human race) and exclusiveness (getting down to visual essentials) that was always a part of Rothko's work.

"A landmark in scholarship for one of North America's most sublime painters."

This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonn_ of Rothko`s work. It documents his entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in color. An introductory text also investigates every essential feature of his art.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Mark Rothko receives book award
On 28 March 1999 David Anfam's "Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonne" was presented with the 1998 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award given to outstanding publications that represent the highest standards in content, design, and construction.