Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intriguing subject to be investigated is the possibility that massive black holes exist at the center of some active galaxies...
...impression grows stronger when the discussion turns to new literary projects. She thinks The Bright Lights has the ingredients of fiction and actually is at work on a novel. She refuses to elaborate, however. She chastises me for my curiosity, teases me about the book's subject, but spills no secrets. I threaten to write that "Marian Seldes betrays a psychotic reticence about future work." She begs...
...broke his truce between surrealism and abstraction. Preoccupied with "tragic and timeless" subject matter, Rothko wanted to invest the entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years...
...more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough anguish, or take the burden of existence away from the artist. The Black Hole expanded to fill the canvas, but no surface could contain the hole. ?Robert Hughes
...this biography, and he may have worried about the consequences. He need not have. He shines through Furbank's narrative as a gentle and courageous man. He has received the biography that he and his work deserved, one that is iust as decent, civil and humane as its subject...