MARK ROTHKO by Weiss, Jeffrey - 1998

Washington / New Haven: National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0300075057 . A new, unread copy in dustjacket. Jacket may have ever-so-slight, inconspicuous crease. With Contributions by John Gage, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian O'Doherty, Mark Rosenthal, and Jessica Stewart. Summary : Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of 115 paintings on canvas and on paper from virtually every period of the artist’s career. Contains four essays on color, darkness, surface and space in Rothko’s work by John Gage, Barbara Novak and Brian O’Doherty, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, and Jeffrey Weiss. There is also a chronology by Jessica Stewart and interviews on Rothko’s legacy between Jeffrey Weiss and Mark Rosenthal and five artists: Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman and George Segal. Contents : Rothko : color as subject / John Cage -- Rothko’s dark paintings : tragedy and void / Barbara Novak and Brian O’Doherty -- Material and immaterial surface : the paintings of Rothko / Carol Mancusi-Ungaro -- Rothko’s unknown space / Jeffrey Weiss -- Chronology / Jessica Stewart -- Interviews : Mark Rosenthal and Jeffrey Weiss / Ellsworth Kelly [and others]. Notes : Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. , 3 May-16 Aug. 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 Sept. -29 Nov. 1998; Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 8 Jan. -18 April 1999. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 376 pages .