Daniel K. Rothbart

1966

DANIEL ROTHBART is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer. Daniel Rothbart holds a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He is the author of three books. Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (1994) explores the relationship between Jewish culture and post-war American abstraction. The Story of the Phoenix (1999) examines American cultural identity, Hollywood, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture. Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (2018) is his latest book. Rothbart lived in Naples as a Fulbright Scholar in the early 1990s, exploring the city’s diverse monuments, neighborhoods, islands, and hinterland. Through friendships and dialogues with Neapolitans, he gained deeper perspective on the colorful history and culture of this ancient port city. Memories commingle with historical discussions and cultural observations that together draw the city into focus. In 2015, Rothbart wrote an essay and four commentaries on the theme of water-based performance as the special lead section of PAJ 111, published by MIT Press. More Fugitive Than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017 (2024) is a book of poems by Richard Milazzo in dialogue with collages by Daniel Rothbart. Rothbart’s studio projects include RamleAnthropocene, the Pool of the Arches / Center for Contemporary Art Ramle CACR, Ramle, Israel; Water Clocks, Hudson River / The Hudson Eye, Hud

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