{"product_id":"arshile-gorky-his-life-and-work-paperback","title":"Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHayden Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the Pulizter Prize, \"the definitive biography of Arshile Gorky--lucid, persuasive, intimate and refreshingly clear-eyed\" (Andrew Solomon, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 C zanne 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 forties, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire, cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic, sensitive account of artistic and personal triumph as well as tragedy, Hayden Herrera's biography is the first to interpret Gorky's work in depth. The result of more than three decades of scholarship-and a lifelong engagement with Gorky's paintings-\u003ci\u003eArshile Gorky\u003c\/i\u003e traces the progress from apprentice to master of the man Andr  Breton called \"the most important painter in American history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayden Herrera is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMary Frank\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMatisse: A Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.53 x 8.94 x 5.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 03, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762302976288,"sku":"9780374529727","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6566b6aba661e68e88ca4561058f4fac.webp?v=1780219080","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/arshile-gorky-his-life-and-work-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}