‎Annie Cohen-Solal, Aaron Rosen (eds)‎
‎Revisiting the Rothko Chapel‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 256 pages, Size:225 x 300 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 62 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503594767.‎

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‎Summary 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS David A. Leslie, Foreword Annie Cohen-Solal, Introduction Part I : Testimonies Christopher Rothko, An Intimate Dialogue: Rothko's Studio and His Chapel Dominique De Menil, Address at the Opening of the Rothko Chapel: February 27, 1971 Karen Rosa, Recognizing the ?Other? as Another ?I?: Learning from Dominique de Menil and the Commitment to Human Rights at the Rothko Chapel Part II: Jewish Memory and Identity David N. Myers, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jewish Writer: Mark Rothko's Hebrew Notebook Annie Cohen-Solal, Diasporic Trajectories and Subversive Convictions: How Dominique de Menil and Mark Rothko Conceived the Rothko Chapel Andrea Pappas, Tragedy and Timeliness: Seeking a New Path in the 1940s Part III: Painting at the Edge Sheldon Nodelman, One Eighth of an Inch: Revisiting the Rothko Chapel's Panels Romeo Castellucci in conversation with Annie Cohen-Solal, All the Chapel's a Stage Thomas Crow, Pulverized Idols in the Art of Mark Rothko Vivian Liska in conversation with Aaron Rosen, Too Sacred for Words?: Rothko as Reader and Writer Part IV : Sacred Spaces in Dialogue Jean-Hubert Martin, Altars of the World: Rothko in a Global Context Aaron Rosen, Jewish Artists in Christian Spaces: Chagall, Rothko, and Nevelson Ran Oron, A Spark of Darkness: An Architect Visits the Rothko Chapel Part V : A Legacy of Advocacy Karen Gonzalez Rice, Siting Broken Obelisk: Public Art, Whiteness, and the Rothko Chapel Archibald S. Henry, A Memorial in Light of the Chapel: Collective Healing at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda Part VI : Poetic Responses Travis Helms, A Mystical Aesthetic: Contemporary Poetic Responses to the Rothko Chapel Richard Chess, Marcus Rothkowitz Stops Praying Martha Serpas, Upon Exiting the Rothko at Dusk Joanna Klink, Rothko Chapel Layla Benitez-James, jus soli - jus sanguinis Roger Reeves, Before Restoration, or More Than Suicide Roberta Ahmanson, Afterword‎