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Arshile Gorky - His Life and Work (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Arshile Gorky - His Life and Work (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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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 Cé zanne 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."
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