thank you so much for sharing this with me - a really wonderful essay, especially the different ways abstraction has served and countered establishment interests. I think I’ve seen one Rothko in person in my life, so I look forward to the day I can stand in a room with four of them!
Great piece. Reminds me of Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation and the idea of Abstract Expressionism as more an act of genuine pushback against the trend of over-flattening interpretations than it was any sort of catering or concession to the art critics of the time whom I would imagine would have been real insufferable to be in any room with for any amount of time
thank you so much for sharing this with me - a really wonderful essay, especially the different ways abstraction has served and countered establishment interests. I think I’ve seen one Rothko in person in my life, so I look forward to the day I can stand in a room with four of them!
come to DC! we have so many of them at the phillips and the national gallery
Great piece. Reminds me of Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation and the idea of Abstract Expressionism as more an act of genuine pushback against the trend of over-flattening interpretations than it was any sort of catering or concession to the art critics of the time whom I would imagine would have been real insufferable to be in any room with for any amount of time