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Rethinking Arshile Gorky (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,440
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Rethinking Arshile Gorky (Hardcover): Kim S. Theriault

Rethinking Arshile Gorky (Hardcover)

Kim S. Theriault

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Often referred to as the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) appears as an interstice within art history's linear progression. Gorky embraced dream imagery in the tradition of the Surrealists, used all-over patterning before Jackson Pollock, promoted disembodied color before Mark Rothko, exploited the physicality of paint before Willem de Kooning, and anticipated stain painting. His life--he escaped the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and struggled as an immigrant artist in New York in the 1930s and 1940s--and his tumultuous personal relationships have cast the artist as a tragic figure and often overshadowed the genius of his art.

Rethinking Arshile Gorky is an examination of the artist and his work based on themes of displacement, self-fashioning, trauma, and memory. By applying a multitude of techniques, including psychoanalytic, semiotic, and constructivist analyses, to explain and demythologize the artist, Kim Theriault offers a contemporary critique of both the way we construct the idea of the "artist" in modern society and the manner in which Arshile Gorky and his art have historically been addressed.

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Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Kim S. Theriault
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-03647-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, First World War to 1960 > Abstract Expressionism
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
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LSN: 0-271-03647-8
Barcode: 9780271036472

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