Rethinking Arshile Gorky

Rethinking Arshile Gorky
Title Rethinking Arshile Gorky PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 296
Release
Genre Art
ISBN 9780271047089

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A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America.

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky
Title Arshile Gorky PDF eBook
Author Hayden Herrera
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 1197
Release 2005-01-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1466817089

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From the Author of Frida, the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth Century Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky-and obliterated his past. Claiming to be a distant cousin of the novelist Maxim Gorky, he found work as an art teacher and undertook a program of rigorous study, schooling himself in the modern painters he most admired, especially Cézanne and Picasso. By the early forties, Gorky had entered his most fruitful period and developed the style that is seen as the link between European modernism and American abstract expressionism. His masterpieces influenced the great generation of American painters in the late forties, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire, cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948. A sympathetic, sensitive account of artistic and personal triumph as well as tragedy, Hayden Herrera's biography is the first to interpret Gorky's work in depth. The result of more than three decades of scholarship-and a lifelong engagement with Gorky's paintings-Arshile Gorky traces the progress from apprentice to master of the man André Breton called "the most important painter in American history."

Artist as Author

Artist as Author
Title Artist as Author PDF eBook
Author Christa Noel Robbins
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 236
Release 2021-06-29
Genre Art
ISBN 022675300X

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With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking a close look at this influential period of art history, Robbins describes how artists and critics used the medium of painting to advance their own claims about the role that they believed authorship should play in dictating the value, significance, and social impact of the art object. Robbins tracks the subject across two definitive periods: the “New York School” as it was consolidated in the 1950s and “Post Painterly Abstraction” in the 1960s. Through many deep dives into key artist archives, Robbins brings to the page the minds and voices of painters Arshile Gorky, Jack Tworkov, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Sam Gilliam, and Agnes Martin along with those of critics such as Harold Rosenberg and Rosalind Krauss. While these are all important characters in the polemical histories of American modernism, this is the first time they are placed together in a single study and treated with equal measure, as peers participating in the shared late modernist moment.

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky
Title Arshile Gorky PDF eBook
Author Matthew Gale
Publisher Tate
Pages 104
Release 2010-07
Genre Art
ISBN

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Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 3 Feb.-3 May 2010.

Ardent Nature

Ardent Nature
Title Ardent Nature PDF eBook
Author Arshile Gorky
Publisher
Pages 140
Release 2017
Genre Landscapes in art
ISBN 9783906915074

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47, presented at Hauser & Wirth New York, November 2-December 23, 2017.

Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World

Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World
Title Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World PDF eBook
Author David Low
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 272
Release 2022-06-30
Genre Photography
ISBN 075560041X

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The Armenian contribution to Ottoman photography in the last decades of the empire has been well-documented. Studios founded and run by Armenian Ottomans in Istanbul contributed to the exciting cultural flourishing of Ottoman 'modernity', before its dissolution after World War I. Less known however are the pioneering studios from the east in the empire's Armenian heartlands, whose photographic output reflected and became a major form of documenting the momentous events and changes of the period, from war and revolution to persecution, migration and ultimately, genocide. This book examines photographic activity in three Armenian cities on the Armenian plateau: Erzurum, Kharpert and Van. It explores how indigenous photography was rooted in the seismic social, political and cultural shifts that shaped Armenian lives during the Ottoman Empire's last four decades. Arguing that photographic practice was marked by the era's central movements, it shows how photography was bound-up in Armenian educational endeavours, mass migration and revolutionary activity. Photography responded to and became the instrument of these phenomena, so much so that it can be shown that they were responsible for the very spread of the medium through the Armenian communities of the Ottoman East and the rapid increase in photographic studios. Contributing to growing interest in Ottoman and Middle Eastern photographic history, the book also offers a valuable perspective on the history of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Art of Latin America

Art of Latin America
Title Art of Latin America PDF eBook
Author Marta Traba
Publisher Inter-American Development Bank
Pages 197
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0940602733

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Marta Traba, one of Latin America's most controversial art critics, examines the works of over 1,000 artists from the first 80 years of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in studying the evolution of Latin American art.