Susan Rothenberg

By Richard Muhlberger

Book Overview

Susan Rothenberg is recognized as an innovative painter and was a key figure in the revitalization of painting in the 1970s. This book represents a monograph of her life and work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670852058
• ISBN13: 9780670852055
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

YUMMY!

This is a great book for an artist....HEAVY on the images, LIGHT on the words. Reproductions are wonderful both in color and in size. If you're a painter, I absolutely recommend this book!

Dances with Images

SUSAN ROTHENBERG's animals are recognizable and simply drawn on flat but energetically worked surfaces to capture movement and spirit: they in particular link the impulsively figurative Abstract Expressionism of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock with the geometrical Minimalism of Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. In fact, she sees art as needing a maker to change a familiar object into something other than itself: her horse...