Includes index.
Introduction / by Christopher Rothko
The artist's dilemma
Art as a natural biological function
Art as a form of action
The integrity of the plastic process
Art, reality, and sensuality
Particularization and generalization
Generalization since the Renaissance
Emotional and dramatic impressionism
Objective impressionism
Plasticity
Space
Beauty
Naturalism
Subject and subject matter
The myth
The attempted myth of today
Primitive civilizations' influence on modern art
Modern art
Primitivism
Indigenous art.
The artist's reality : philosophies of art by Mark Rothko. ISBN 0300102534. Published by Yale University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.