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Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko, a memoir of a year spent in the mountains living and working in a license plate shed, is a dramatized account of a lived experience. The nine-chapter narrative also contains a polemic about regional painting's relevance in a world in which the United Sates might be a regional, rather than international, power, and in an art world in which established methods of critical art—predicated on negation, subversion, parody and deconstruction—seem increasingly ineffective. Instead, it proposes a kind of creative critique based on invention and synthesis, the privileged form of which is fiction. In Rothko's own words: “Regionalism is not a style, but a mode of and model for making. It not so much suspends the viewer’s disbelief as it enables an artist to suspend his self-consciousness. The respite from criticality opens a fictive space where a conceptual artist can be a painter, a painter a writer, an art dealer a publisher.... Regionalism is the protective shell that allows us to be real artists again." $14, softcover Buy now, e-mail, or free reading commons permalink: www.publicationstudio.biz/books/139 This item originated from: Jank Editions Other books stocked by the studio |
