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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Mark Rothko, Frank Auerbach, Aesop Rock, Asger Jorn, Hugo Claus, Niki de Saint Phalle, Frederick Hammersley, John McLaughlin, Rhea Carmi, Karel Appel, Per Kirkeby, Sam Francis, Abraham Lishinsky, James E. Brewton, Vance A. Larson, Jacques Calonne, Jorgen Nash, Lucebert, Asencio, Jan Nieuwenhuys, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Aart Kemink, Alfred Julio Jensen, Stephen Gilbert, Edward Kelly, Cora Cohen, Svavar Guonason, Pierre Alechinsky, Tess Jaray, Walasse Ting, Ian Stephenson, Robert Jacobsen, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Mario Prassinos, Malcolm Hughes, Christopher Wood, Emile Kirscht, Emily Mason, Gust Graas, Thibaut de Reimpre, Richard Mortensen, Peter Brandes, Henry Heerup, Scape Martinez, Jean-Michel Atlan, Christian Dotremont, William Gear, Gina Pellon, Erik Ortvad, Pol Bury, Katherine Bradford, Else Alfelt, Donald Cole, Ejler Bille, Raoul Ubac, Alan Uglow, Serge Vandercam. Excerpt: Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970), was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter." Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz, Mark Rotkovich) was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). His father, Jacob Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual, who provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia, those in Dvinsk had been spared from violent outbreaks of anti-Semitic pogroms. However, in an environment where Jews were often blamed for many of the evils that befell Russia, Rothko's early childhood was plagued with fear. Despite Jacob Rothkowitz's modest income, the family was highly educated, and able to speak Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew. Follow...
