Full Description
An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood - his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915 - he changed his name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was a very influential figure among the latter. His work was an inspiration to Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, among others. Matthew Spender illuminates this world as he tells the story of Gorky's life and career.
Contents
Illustrations
Gorky's Family Tree
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Khorkom
2 Van City
3 Yerevan
4 Watertown
5 Sullivan Street
6 Union Square
7 The Public Works of Art Project
8 The Federal Art Project
9 The Newark Airport Murals
10 Old and New Paths
11 The World's Fair
12 War
13 San Francisco
14 A Change of Direction
15 Crooked Run
16 Surrealists in New York
17 A Second Summer at Crooked Run
18 Roxbury
19 Two Disasters
20 Union Square
21 Sherman
22 Last Six Weeks
Afterword
Notes
Index
