Arshile Gorky : New York City / edited by Ben Eastham ; introduction by Adam Gopnik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eastham, Benjamin, editor.

Gopnik, Adam, writer of preface.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948.

Gorky, Arshile.

Painters--United States--Biography.

Painters.

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.

Homes.

Intellectual life.

New York (State)--New York.

United States.

Genre:

Art criticism.

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

New York City

Place of Publication:

[Zurich] : Hauser & Wirth Publishers, [2025]

Summary:

"This book unpacks the relationship between Arshile Gorky and New York, focusing on the artist's early years in the city following his arrival in 1924 after fleeing the Armenian genocide. What did it mean for an artist who named himself after a Russian writer and pledged allegiance to Picasso to find his own voice in New York? Embracing the metropolis as a locus of modernity and liberation, Gorky sought to reconcile it with his own cultural and historical inheritance. Bound together in a relationship of mutual influence, Gorky would come to shape the history of New York painting, just as the city had shaped his own work. Edited by Ben Eastham, this richly illustrated book combines fascinating new insights into Gorky's work with broader reflections on his status as an immigrant artist, and includes essays by writer Adam Gopnik, art historians Tamar Kharatishvili, Christa Noel Robbins, and Emily Warner, alongside a meditation on Gorky's enduring influence by painter Allison Katz."--Publisher's website, accessed 2025/08/01, https://shop.hauserwirth.com/products/arshile-gorky-new-york-city.

Contents:

Introduction by Ben Eastham

Chronology 1902-24 Home and Exile

Figure Variation

Abstract Painting in America

Arshile Gorky's Fabulous Origins by Christa Noel Robbins

Gorky's New York, Greenwich Village and Union Square

Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia

Organization

Gorky's New York, Midtown

Shadows and Fantastic Fancies: Gorky's Murals for the Modern City by Emily Warner

Marine Transportation Mural Studies

Mural Studies

Gorky with Gorky by Tamar Kharatishvili

Khorkdom

Chronology 1925-39, The Invention of Gorky

Landscape

The Remake by Allison Katz

Chronology 1940-48, Gorky Takes His Place

Gorky Again by Adam Gopnik

List of illustrated works.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9783907493069

3907493060

OCLC:

1518010098

Publisher Number:

CIPO000195124