Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

Synopsis of Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

«Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction» is Anna C. Chave's art history essay on Mark Rothko, published by Yale University Press in paperback.

Anna C. Chave examines the structure of Mark Rothko's paintings and argues that, even in their abstraction, they retain traces of basic and symbolically charged pictorial conventions. The book addresses the work of the New York School painter and includes black-and-white and color reproductions with descriptive commentary.

Part of the Yale Publications in the History of Art series. Originally published in 1989, this 2001 edition has 229 pages.

For those interested in the New York School, abstract painting, and twentieth-century art history.