Description: Product DescriptionFrom the Author of Frida, the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth CenturyBorn 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 Cézanne 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 fortie…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9780374113230
Book Title: Arshile Gorky : His Life and Work
Number of Pages: 784 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Individual Artists / General, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 46.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Hayden Herrera
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
