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Article: Isn't it Romantic? (Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko)
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- Artforum International
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- May 1, 1998
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This month the National Gallery in Washington, DC, opens the first full-scale American retrospective of Mark Rothko's work in twenty years. To mark the occasion, art historian Robert Rosenblum, who with this issue joins Artforum's masthead as a contributing editor, offers a personal chronology of his five-decade-long dialogue with the artist's work.
ca. 1953 Amazing to recall, now that he is as permanently enshrined in the pantheon of artist-deities as Matisse or Mondrian, but Rothko, back in the early '50s, was a fighting word. I remember vividly the combative, black-and-white climate that divided the New York art world into pro-or-con extremes when faced with the ...
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