<DIV>While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko&#8217;s writings have only recently come to light, beginning with the critically acclaimed <I>The Artist&#8217;s Reality: Philosophies of Art</I>. Rothko&#8217;s other written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. <I>Writings on Art</I> fills this significant void; it includes some 90 documents&#8212;including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures&#8212;written by Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist&#8217;s life and work is also included. <BR>This provocative compilation of both published and unpublished writings from 1934--69 reveals a number of things about Rothko: the importance of writing for an artist who many believed had renounced the written word; the meaning of transmission and transition that he experienced as an art teacher at the Brooklyn Jewish Center Academy; his deep concern for meditation and spirituality; and his private relationships with contemporary artists (including Newman, Motherwell, and Clyfford Still) as well as journalists and curators. <BR>As was revealed in Rothko&#8217;s <I>The Artist&#8217;s Reality</I>, what emerges from this collection is a more detailed picture of a sophisticated, deeply knowledgeable, and philosophical artist who was also a passionate and articulate writer. <BR></DIV>