Boris Lurie & Mark Rothko: Truth or Mysteries

The book compares two Jewish artists – Mark Rothko and Boris Lurie. Both spent their childhood in Latvia, in a Russian-speaking environment. Both faced hostile attitudes and came to the United States under traumatic circumstances – Rothko in 1913, Lurie in 1946. Until the end of their lives they did not feel at home in America. Both rejected the American way of life, but took refuge in art, and found inspiration in the search for creative resistance to a foreign culture.