Rethinking Arshile Gorky
By: Kim S. Theriault.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036472; 9780271036465
Subjects: Gorky, Arshile, -- 1904-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation; Painting, Abstract -- United States; Painting, American -- 20th century
Description: "A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genocide, displacement, and identity; title: Constructions of gender, self, and other; title: Language, translation, and diaspora; title: Exile, abstraction, and nonobjectivity; title: Difference, likeness, and synthesis; title: Conflation, re-membering, and indeterminacy; title: Primitivism, the feminine, and orientalization; title: Enigma, erasure, and Arshile Gorky's afterlife.