About Rothko

by Dore Ashton

Book Overview

The best full-scale biography of this intellectually restless, deeply committed artist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195033485
• ISBN13: 9780195033489
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

definitive

The definitive book on Mark Rothko's work, by one of his closest friends. Ashton gets as close as she can to a very elusive, contradictory person. The book requires the same kind of sublime imagination that Rothko's paintings - his "children," as he often called them - require. Those without soul should pass this book by.

Ashton's cryptic writing mirrors Rothko's mystery

I read the book in the eighties, when it was published-- I was attracted to the great photo of Rothko on the cover-- the book is a loving Rothko-like homage--cryptic, deep, serious-- the lack of irony is sometimes hard to take-- but adds a sense of the compelling-- I found myself reflecting upon it-- as one might reflect upon one of the paintings-- Ashton obviously loved her subject-- oh, she describes her meetings with Rothko-- in his later, financially secure period eating in an upper east side chinese restaurant-- a delight.