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Title: Rothko by Jacob Baal-Teshuva ISBN: 3-8228-1820-8 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: a terrific little bargain
Comment: There are many larger, fatter and even better books on Rothko, but this little volume is pretty solid. At ten bucks, you shouldn't even wait for the second thought: it's a sure thing. It includes a wealth of color reproductions, and frankly their scale is surprisingly generous for a book of modest dimensions. Some are as large as the repros in all but the largest-format Rothko books. Taschen has wisely chosen to devote a full, text-less page to most of the canvases reprinted here, and the photography is fine and sensitive. Good quality photos like these reveal nuances that make the photos effectively "larger".
The text covers Rothko's life and analyzes his thought, innovations and development through abundant quotations and sound analysis. There's unusually full exploration of his early work, and a good chapter on his symbolist-surrealist myth-paintings (though I miss seing "Slow Swirl by the Edge of the Sea.") The book also includes a few works by other artists where appropriate (as in the reprint of a Matisse painting that Rothko answered with his "Hommage to Matisse"). It's a complete yet efficient book, as are most of the titles in this series.
My sole important reservation about the book concerns the minimal coverage of the essential "multiform" period of Rothko's work--only three or so examples appear here. That's an important failing, but not enough to dull my overall enthusiasm.
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Title: Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling ISBN: 382281637X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Kirchner by Norbert Wolf ISBN: 3822821233 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Caspar David Friedrich by Taschen ISBN: 3822819581 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Amedo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing (Basic Art) by Doris Autkrystof, Doris Krystof, Taschen America ISBN: 382286319X Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Paul Klee: 1879-1940 (Basic Art) by Susanna Partsch, Taschen America ISBN: 3822859818 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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