Revisiting the Rothko Chapel /
Includes installation photographs and plans of the chapel, as well as an overview of Rothko's earlier paintings. In addition to paintings by Rothko, the text also includes works by Chagall, Louise Nevelson, and Barnett Newman as examples of Jewish artists who created work for Christian spaces
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2024]
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| Series: | Arts and the sacred (Series) ;
8. |
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| Summary: | Includes installation photographs and plans of the chapel, as well as an overview of Rothko's earlier paintings. In addition to paintings by Rothko, the text also includes works by Chagall, Louise Nevelson, and Barnett Newman as examples of Jewish artists who created work for Christian spaces "More than a half-century after its completion, the Rothko Chapel has become one of the great monuments of modern art as well as a veritable pilgrimage site for spiritual seekers. "I wonder if it is not prophetic", its founder Dominique de Menil noted in her inaugural address, "that Rothko should have left us with the one message that can be totally accepted by everyone, believers as well as non-believers: the sense of mystery." This book plumbs this mystery in fresh ways, bringing an international and consummately interdisciplinary roster of scholars and practitioners into conversation and reflection on the legacy of the Rothko Chapel. Beginning with an exploration of the plans for the chapel by the artist's son, Christopher Rothko, the volume proceeds through an investigation of Rothko's early writings to a study of the chapel's interfaith dimensions as well as its place in social justice movements. It concludes with a breathtaking new collection of poems inspired by the chapel's enduring mysteries." |
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| Item Description: | Series information and numbering from publisher's website. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait, facsimiles, plans ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9782503594767 250359476X |