Seeing Rothko

Glenn Phillips is curator and head of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute.Thomas Crow is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and served as director of the Getty Research Institute from 2000 to 2007. He is a contributing editor to Artforum and writes frequently on contemporary art and cultural issues. Since his award-winning first book, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985), he has published several volumes on the art of the later twentieth century, including The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent (1996) and The Intelligence of Art (1999), as well as major essays on Gordon Matta-Clark (2003), Robert Smithson (2004), Robert Rauschenberg (2005), and Jasper Johns (2008).

"The book is beautifully illustrated with glossy, colour reproductions of the work .... [T]his volume succeeds in once more opening up provocative and exciting new ways of 'seeing Rothko.'"-The Art Book, February 2007; "The critical commentary in Seeing Rothko is rich and engaging."-The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 2006