Arshile Gorky : a retrospective / edited by Michael R. Taylor ; essays by Harry Cooper ... [et al.] ; chronology by Melissa Kerr.
Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948.; Taylor, Michael R., 1966-; Cooper, Harry, 1959-; Philadelphia Museum of Art.; Tate Modern (Gallery); Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
2009
N6537.G65 A4 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Arshile Gorky : a retrospective / edited by Michael R. Taylor ; essays by Harry Cooper ... [et al.] ; chronology by Melissa Kerr.
Author Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948.
ISBN 9780300154412 (yale cloth)
0300154410 (yale cloth)
9780876332139 (pma cloth)
0876332130 (pma cloth)
9780876332146 (pma paper)
0876332149 (pma paper)
Imprint Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 399 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Call Number N6537.G65 A4 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 759.13
Summary Arshile Gorky was one of the central figures in American art's shift toward abstraction during the first half of the twentieth century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of his work in almost thirty years, this book traces the evolution of Gorky's arresting visual style. Nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from all phases of his career--an number of them never before published or exhibited--are beautifully reproduced, including a large figurative painting from 1927 known previously only through its preparatory studies. Throughout the volume, some of Gorky's best-known and most powerful paintings are paired with related pieces and meticulous preliminary studies, shedding new light on his artistic process. Illustrated essays incorporating recently discovered biographical information and photographs examine his experience of the Armenian Genocide, his collaboration with the Works Progress Administration, and his explorations of abstraction and Surrealism, providing important reassessments of his life and career. Admired by many of his contemporaries and hugely influential for subsequent generations of artists, Gorky created a complex and deeply moving body of work that encompasses styles ranging from Impressionism to Cubism, Surrealism, and the beginnings of Abstract Expressionism.
Note Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010; Tate Modern, London, Feb. 10-May 3, 2010; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 6-Sept. 20, 2010.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Taylor, Michael R., 1966-
Cooper, Harry, 1959-
Added Corporate Author Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tate Modern (Gallery)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Foreword / Timothy Rub
Acknowledgments / Michael R. Taylor
Rethinking Arshile Gorky / Michael R. Taylor
Exile, trauma, and Arshile Gorky's The artist and his mother / Kim Servart Theriault
To organize painting / Harry Cooper
"Flight from reality"? A reconsideration of Gorky's politics and approach to public murals in the 1930s / Jody Patterson
Gorky and surrealism / Michael R. Taylor
The painter's painter / Robert Storr
Chronology / Melissa Kerr
Exhibition history
Bibliography / Claire Howard.

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