Description: New-wrapped in plastic From the publisher: 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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Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rethinking Arshile Gorky
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Individual Artists / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, American / General, History / General
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28 Oz
Subject Area: Art
Author: Kim S. Theriault
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 7.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
