Simon Schama's Power of Art
Rothko
Season 1 Episode 8 of 8
The historian recounts the story behind the creation of Mark Rothko's suite of paintings, commissioned in 1958 for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York's Seagram Building. The artist declared he wanted to ruin diners' appetites by creating work that demanded their attention - an attempt he saw as the ultimate test of art's power in the modern world
Simon Schama's Power of Art airs on BBC Four at 9:00 PM, Tuesday 1 July. (Subtitles, finale, series, audio description.)
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Allan Corduner
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Simon Quarterman
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Carl Hindmarch
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Simon Schama
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