The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine

About this book

This elegant collection commemorates the timeless words and inspired thoughts of Dominique de Menil a woman whose lifes task was to inspire a better world. With her husband John Dominique founded the inter-religious Rothko Chapel in Houston in 1971. The de Menils dream was for the Chapel to promote interfaith dialogue human rights and the arts. They famously commissioned the artist Mark Rothko to create a suite of paintings specifically for the Chapel.