Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel

by Annie Cohen-Solal

Book Overview

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists

Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030018204X
• ISBN13: 9780300182040
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 9.3"