- Paperback: 241 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc (May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0306807041
- ISBN-13: 978-0306807046
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,154,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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}Mark Rothko (19031970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as "a passport to a more luminous world." Drawing on Dore Ashtons countless conversations with Rothko himself, About Rothko is the best full-scale critical biography of this intellectually restless but deeply committed artist. }
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Dore Ashton knew Rothko and used this knowledge and access to his work to write this book about him. It is therefore useful material for anyone wishing to understand more about Rothko than his paintings can tell us face to face. Rothko was a difficult and tortured man, and his painting and lifestyle reflect that. Ashton gives a thorough and comprehensive guide to this world and his work, but it can sometimes make for hard reading. Whether this is the fault of the author, or the fact that they had difficult material to work with is hard to say, but although I would recommend it as a useful book, I wouldn't say that it was an engaging book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A scholarly work which can be hard going sometimes but I really enjoyed it and there is no doubt Dore Ashton knows her material. I felt I knew much more about how Rothko developed as a painter and I understand his paintings much more now, which is the reason I bought the book, so I am very satisfied. Rothko's work is deeply intellectual so books about it are by definition not going to be the easiest things in the world to grasp. I however really enjoyed working through it and I think it is one of the best books I have personally read about an artist.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
definitive
9 July 2001
Format:Paperback
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Simply create
15 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
Dore Ashton befriended Mark Rothko, the famed impressionist painter and she shares her insight into the life of this artist in her book, About Rothko.
With some beautiful images, you get a sense of the larger than life work of Rothko. This artist sought to bring out the internal inspiration onto the canvas. To delve into the inner demons we all see and splash them onto his master pieces.
This book is a good start to peek into a complex man who pushed the envelope. He could be gregarious and engaging one minute and a recluse the next.
Ashton shares her first hand relationship which gives this book a colorful peek into an artist's life.
With some beautiful images, you get a sense of the larger than life work of Rothko. This artist sought to bring out the internal inspiration onto the canvas. To delve into the inner demons we all see and splash them onto his master pieces.
This book is a good start to peek into a complex man who pushed the envelope. He could be gregarious and engaging one minute and a recluse the next.
Ashton shares her first hand relationship which gives this book a colorful peek into an artist's life.
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Ashton's cryptic writing mirrors Rothko's mystery
27 Sep 1997
Format:Hardcover
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.
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