Contains critiques, reminiscences, and poems from a variety of sources expressing sometimes contradictory views of the surrealist's personality and art.

In this full-scale study of the artist, Dore Ashton presents a portrait of an intellectually restless man of unquenchable thirst and hunger, whose work provided him with a passport to a more luminous world. With her immense knowledge of Rothko's oeuvre and a sensitive understanding of his psychology, the author analyzes the singular aesthetic quality of his work and sets it in relation to the turbulent cultural climate in which he functioned. She...

"The Paris-born, Venezuelan artist Marisol (b. 1930) burst onto the 1960s New York art scene with large figural sculptures in a wild amalgam of mixed media. Often satirical, Marisol's art is inspired by sources as diverse as Pre-Columbian art, folk art, Cubism, and Surrealism. For the past several decades, however, Marisol has shunned the spotlight and her artwork has been overlooked as a result. Accompanying the first retrospective of Marisol's work...