Arshile Gorky : His Life and Work

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Edition: 1st
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2003-07-14
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

From the Author ofFrida, 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 Gorkyand 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 Ceacute;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 scholarshipand a lifelong engagement with Gorky's paintingsArshile Gorkytraces the progress from apprentice to master of the man Andreacute; Breton called "the most important painter in American history."

Author Biography

Hayden Herrera is the author of Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Mary Frank, and Matisse: A Portrait. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Prologue 3(6)
PART I
1. Charahan Surp Nishan
9(3)
2. Armenians in Ottoman Turkey
12(4)
3. Khorkom
16(14)
4. Boyhood
30(8)
5. The Departure of Sedrak Adoian
38(2)
6. Akhtamar
40(7)
PART II
7. To Van
47(6)
8. The American Mission at Van
53(4)
9. Massacres
57(9)
10. The Siege of Van
66(10)
11. Our Fatherland
76(7)
PART III
12. Flight into Russia
83(6)
13. Yerevan
89(7)
14. Famine
96(11)
PART IV
15. Watertown and Providence
107(9)
16. The Young Master
116(11)
PART V
17. The Early Years in New York
127(9)
18. Apprentice to the Masters
136(8)
19. Teaching
144(7)
20. The Artist and His Mother
151(7)
21. Portrait of Myself and My Imaginary Wife
158(12)
22. The Cafeteria People
170(10)
23. Copy Art and Imitate Nature
180(17)
PART VI
24. Another Cup of Coffee, Another Piece of Pie
197(12)
25. Fervent Scrutinizer
209(6)
26. Exhibitions
215(13)
27. Mary George
228(11)
28. Corinne
239(8)
29. Lyrical Man
247(8)
PART VII
30. The Artists' Union and the American Abstract Artists
255(9)
31. The Newark Airport Murals
264(17)
32. "Deeper and Purer Work"
281(11)
33. Armenian Portraits
292(9)
34. The End of the Decade
301(12)
35. A Language for All to Understand
313(8)
PART VIII
36. Mougouch
321(8)
37. Cohabitation
329(8)
38. San Francisco
337(13)
39. Marriage
350(8)
40. Garden in Sochi
358(7)
41. Camouflage
365(14)
PART IX
42. Surrealists in Exile
379(14)
43. Waterfall
393(20)
PART X
44. Virginia
413(14)
45. The Leaf of the Artichoke Is an Owl
427(13)
46. Cutting Down the Raphaels
440(18)
47. November and December in New York
458(11)
PART XI
48. Roxbury
469(5)
49. The Eye-Spring
474(7)
50. Fearfully Linked with the Sun
481(12)
PART XII
51. Sherman
493(9)
52. Phoenix
502(8)
53. A Tree Cut Down
510(8)
54. The Sky Miner's Haul
518(4)
55. Third Virginia Summer
522(13)
PART XIII
56. Gorky and the Surrealists
535(9)
57. Castine
544(11)
PART XIV
58. The Glass House
555(7)
59. Show at Julien Levy
562(15)
60. No More Ploughs
577(6)
61. Peeled Onion
583(17)
62. Darkness Spreads over My Soul
600(19)
PART XV
63. Aftermath
619(7)
64. Fame
626(9)
Notes 635(80)
Selected Bibliography 715(14)
Acknowledgements 729(2)
Index 731

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