Black Angel
The Life of Arshile Gorky
In this first full-scale biography of the artist Robert Hughes called a kind of Bridge of Sighs between Surrealism and America, Nouritza Matossian charts the life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most mysterious of major twentieth-century artists. Born in Armenia, he survived the Turkish genocide begun in 1915 and arrived in America in 1920. One of the first abstract expressionists, he was a major influence on the New York art scene, which included de Kooning, Rothko, Pollock, and others. After a devastating series of illnesses, injuries, and personal setbacks, he committed suicide at the age of 46.In Black Angel, Nouritza Matossian uses for the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4683-0517-3
- EAN: 9781468305173
- Produktnummer: 31910100
- Verlag: ABRAMS Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Nouritza Matossian is a biographer and music critic. She is the author of an acclaimed biography of composer Iannis Xenakis and a contributor on music and the arts to the Independent, the Economist, and the Observer.
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