Revisiting the Rothko Chapel

Abstract

Includes installation photographs and plans of the chapel, as well as an overview of Rothko's earlier paintings. In addition to paintings by Rothko, the text also includes works by Chagall, Louise Nevelson, and Barnett Newman as examples of Jewish artists who created work for Christian spaces

Contents

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