Arshile Gorky
Subtitle: a retrospective
By: edited by Michael R. Taylor ; essays by Harry Cooper ... [et al.] ; chronology by Melissa Kerr
Contributors: Taylor, Michael R., 1966-; Cooper, Harry, 1959-; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Tate Modern (Gallery); Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art; In association with Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780876332139; 9780876332146; 9780300154412
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2009-Jan. 2010, the Tate Modern, London, Feb.-May 2010, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June-Sept. 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Timothy Rub; title: Acknowledgments  -- Michael R. Taylor; title: Rethinking Arshile Gorky  -- Michael R. Taylor; title: Exile, trauma, and Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother  -- Kim Servant Theriault; title: To organize painting  -- Harry Cooper; title: "Flight from reality"? A reconsideration of Gorky's politics and approach to public murals in the 1930s  -- Jody Patterson; title: Gorky and surrealism  -- Michael R. Taylor; title: The painter's painter  -- Robert Storr; title: Chronology  -- Melissa Kerr; title: Exhibition history --; title: Bibliography -- Clair Howard.