Daniel Rothbart

Daniel Rothbart Official site Daniel Rothbart on YouTube “Seeing Naples at Hudson Hall.” The Roundtable. WAMC Northeast Public Radio, April 3, 2019. De Leonardis, Manuela, Napoli, una teatrale quotidianità tra sguardi e souvenir, Il Manifesto, October 2018. Notte, Riccardo, Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius, Sdefinizioni Art Mag, January 2019. Perreault, John, Daniel Rothbart, The Space @ Media Triangle, Sculpture Magazine, May 2003. Moral, Sukran, Rothbart dalla parte di Moral, Luxflux, July 2003.

Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (Edgewise Press, 2018).

In 2015, Rothbart wrote an essay and four commentaries on the theme of water-based performance as the lead section of PAJ 111, published by MIT Press. Rothbart 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 a book of travel writing inspired by Rothbart's experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Naples during the early 1990s. The work combines personal narrative with stories from the city's history, ancient and modern, that speak to Neapolitan values and culture. Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum observes "Rothbart's narrative of Naples bears the freight of a melancholy intrinsic to the act of paying attention to a city that is older and wiser than we will ever live to be."

Lux, Simonetta, Arte ipercontemporanea. Un certo loro sguardo... Ulteriori protocolli dell'arte contemporanea (Gangemi Editore, 2006).

Rothbart was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation in 2002. His work is the subject of a monograph by Enrico Pedrini published in 2010 by Ulisse e Calipso of Naples, Italy. Rothbart’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (Ulisse e Calipso, 1994).

Enrico Pedrini, John Perreault and Varda Genossar, Daniel Rothbart: Works 1988 – 2009 (Ulisse e Calipso, 2010).

Daniel Kenneth Rothbart (Stanford, CA, January 29, 1966), is an artist and writer.