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Title: Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction (Yale Publications in the History of Art, 39) by Anna C. Chave ISBN: 0-300-04961-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating introduction
Comment: Ms. Chave's book is quite a good introduction to 1950's abstract-expressionist art in general, and to Rothko in particular. She convincingly traces his development from realistic imagery through Miro-like surrealism to his distinctive ethereal but emotional rectangles. Along the way, she makes a good case for his stubborn insistence that his work did, in fact, have a subject. At least one other art-thinker, Georgia O'Keeffe, caught on to this (in a documentary made a few years before she died, O'Keeffe commented that a Rothko piece in the MOMA seemed like a timeline of a man's life), as did at least one of Rothko's more sensitive collectors (this is chronicled in the book). This, in my opinion, is why Rothko's work isn't ideally suited for calm meditation, unlike that of some other abstract artists (which is not to say that being meditative is a bad thing, by the way). I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't quite get modern art, and is willing to put some effort into the task.

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