Violent and serene, visceral and cerebral, mystical and transcendental - Mark Rothko's luminous canvases elicit a remarkable range of intense reactions. In a series of analytic, personal, and even poetic essays by contemporary scholars, Seeing Rothko explores the experience of standing before Rothko's most compelling artistic creations. Throughout his artistic career, Mark Rothko (1903-70) was concerned with what other people saw when they looked at his canvases. As his work shifted from figurative imagery to glowing fields of colour, his concern expanded to the settings in which his canvases where exhibited. This book also includes a bibliography of texts by Rothko.