{"product_id":"writings-on-art","title":"Writings on Art","description":"Used Hardcover in Very Good condition. \u003cb\u003eThe first collection of Mark Rothko's writings, which range the entire span of his career\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko's writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art\u003c\/i\u003e. Rothko's other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. \u003ci\u003eWritings on Art\u003c\/i\u003e fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents--including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures--written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist's life and work is also included. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As was revealed in Rothko's \u003ci\u003eThe Artist's Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rothko, Mark","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52814741602587,"sku":"mon0000797140","price":28.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/23141833482294.jpg?v=1786742548","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/writings-on-art","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}