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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