Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Hayden Herrera and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Rethinking Arshile Gorky written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America.
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Harry Rand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Hayden Herrera and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the Pulizter Prize, "the definitive biography of Arshile Gorky--lucid, persuasive, intimate and refreshingly clear-eyed" (Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) 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."
Download or read book Arshile Gorky Beyond the Limit written by Parker Field and published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, the painter Arshile Gorky spent the summer at Crooked Run Farm, a country estate in Lincoln, Virginia. In this time, he drew feverishly, producing almost 300 drawings. These drawings included a study for what is now considered one of his most remarkable paintings, 'The Limit' (1947), a work that he described as the outcome of being ""so lonely, exasperated, and how to paint such empty space?so empty it's the limit."" Also among Gorky's artistic yield from the summer of 1946 were a group of related pieces that came to be referred to as the Virginia Summer drawings. During a 2020 conservation treatment on 'The Limit,' conservators discovered that nested behind it was another workman expressively painted canvas immediately recognizable by its relationship to the Virginia Summer drawings. 'Beyond The Limit' reveals this newly discovered painting, referred to as 'Untitled (Virginia Summer),' and its place in Gorky's oeuvre. Essays by Parker Field, Managing Director of the Arshile Gorky Foundation, and Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor Of Art History at New York University, are complemented by an illustrated chronology that piece together the hidden story of 'Untitled (Virginia Summer)' and what it signified for Gorky during this time of incredible creative output. The book's design encourages readers to unwrap 'The Limit' to discover 'Untitled (Virginia Summer),' and a series of brushstroke details positions readers close to the canvases of both works. Together with a plate section that presents both paintings, select drawings from the Virginia Summer series, and reference works, readers will have their own experience of discovering Arshile Gorky. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (03.02. - 19.03.2022).
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Arshile Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The show will be comprised of 17 paintings and 23 works on paper from this very influential period in Gorky's brief but potent career. It covers a decade where Gorky's inspirations synthesize to forge a radically new development in American art. Influences ranging from the Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello to Picasso, Miro and the surrealists can be seen in the work. As Michael Auping has asserted, it is during this time that Gorky establishes a complex formal vocabulary that acts as an important link between European surrealism and the development of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition contains pieces from some of Gorky's key serial works. Included are drawings and a painting from the group entitled Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia. This somber, dreamlike series combines bio-morphic abstraction with surrealism. Also included are two paintings and related drawings entitled Khorkom, named after Gorky's birthplace, a town in the Armenian province of Van. In three paintings from the well-known Garden in Sochi series of the early 1940s, Gorky invokes his father's garden in Armenia. His need to reconnect himself with his ancient homeland and with his idealized childhood provides the beguiling imagery that gives Gorky's work its unique quality.
Download or read book Ardent Nature written by Arshile Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book From a High Place written by Matthew Spender and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the finest biographies of an artist I have ever read."—John Ashbery
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Matthew Gale and published by Tate. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, 3 Feb.-3 May 2010.
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Robert Saltonstall Mattison and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arshile Gorky emigrated from Armenia to the United States in 1920 where he established himself as one of the greatest painters of that period. Although his life was cut short by his suicide in 1948, the body of work he left behind secured his reputation as one of the greatest surrealist painters. This book tells his story.
Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!
Download or read book Arshile Gorky 1904 1948 written by Arshile Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born on the shores of Armenia's Lake Van, Arshile Gorky immigrated to the United States in 1920 and went on to become one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century. Gorky was both a forefather to and a seminal figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement years before Pollock and Motherwell, he found ways to extend Surrealist dream imagery into a uniquely American abstraction, simply by pursuing Surrealism's insistence on the authenticity of interior experience freely transcribed on canvas--also the logic of much New York Abstract Expressionism. For Gorky this was no easy endeavor: critic Meyer Schapiro called him a fervent scrutinizer of paintings, an ability corroborated by his close friend Willem de Kooning (whose own painting owes much to Gorky): for some mysterious reason, he knew lots more about painting, and art... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head. Although Gorky's life was cut short by his suicide in 1948, the tremendously influential legacy that he left behind has secured his reputation as the last of the great Surrealist painters and one of the first Abstract Expressionists. Here, reproductions of key works are accompanied by Gorky's own writings and a collection of interviews.
Download or read book ARSHILE written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Arshile Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Arshile Gorky's life through his personal letters, the correspondence between friends and family and key contemporary reviews." -- inside cover.
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Phyllis D. Rosenzweig and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arshile Gorky 1904 1948 written by Diane Waldman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Download or read book Arshile Gorky written by Ethel Schwabacher and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of this important American painter by one of his students.
