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Books on: american art and gorky

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American Art of Our Century

Book by Lloyd Goodrich, John I. H. Baur; Praeger, 1961

Subjects:

Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States, Art--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs

Collections: Entire Library

...Calder, Noguchi, and Gorky--remained faithful...America abstract art was not, as in...historical evolution. The American modernists did not...historic tendency in American art: the precise realism...had marked much American art of the past. The...
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On Modern American Art: Selected Essays

Book by Robert Rosenblum; Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States

Collections: Entire Library

Robert Rosenblum is a critic, curator and art historian, whose writings helped establish the reputations of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. In this collection he explores the meanings, movements and paradoxes of 20th-century American art.
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Topics in American Art since 1945

Book by Lawrence Alloway; W. W. Norton, 1975

Subjects:

Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...THE AMERICAN SUBLIME 31...SIXTIES, II: Pop Art 117...1. Arshile Gorky: Study for Dark...Museum of American Art, February 13, 1968...another, by various American artists, including Gorky and Pollock. The...
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Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art

Book by John I. H. Baur; Macmillan, 1958

Subjects:

Art, Abstract, Art, American--Exhibitions, Artists--United States, Nature (Aesthetics)

Collections: Entire Library

...Whitney Museum of American Art. ANCHILE GORKY. Waterfall. c. 1943...feelings possible. Arshile Gorky Born in Turkish Armenia...Grand Central School of Art, 1925-31; also private...1941; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951; Princeton...
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The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art

Book by Carter Ratcliff; Westview Press, 1998

Subjects:

Painting, American, Painting, Modern--20th Century--United States, Pollock, Jackson--1912-1956--Themes, Motives

Collections: Entire Library

"A provoking & rewarding text. Calling Pollock to his aid at every twist & turn in the vast labyrinth of modern American art, Mr. Ratcliff ... writes with an insight born of long personal experience, combining expert knowledge with a questioning eye." New York Times Book Review "Provocative ...
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"A provoking & rewarding text. Calling Pollock to his aid at every twist & turn in the vast labyrinth of modern American art, Mr. Ratcliff ... writes with an insight born of long personal experience, combining expert knowledge with a questioning eye." New York Times Book Review "Provocative ... provides fresh perspective on modern American art." Publishers Weekly "In his earlier books about individual artists, & here, in this survey of the last fifty years of American art, Ratcliff displays an uncanny knack for matching words to images & abstractions." Booklist "Lively & compelling." Library Journal
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Journal Articles on: american art and gorky

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Richard Wright's Long Journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky

Journal article by Dale E. Peterson; African American Review, Vol. 28, 1994

Subjects:

Authors--Philosophy, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor--Influence, Gorky, Maxim--Influence, Wright, Richard (Author)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...articles by Gorky were prominent...revived by the American distribution...proletarian art. (4.)The...sensitive African-American intertextual...Black Boy as Art," both published...attaches Gorky fondly and...Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship...Helen. From Gorky to Pasternak...
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Photographic Ethics in the Work of Boris Mihailov

Journal article by Alla Efimova; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994

Subjects:

Mihailov, Boris--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Photographers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Russia--Art

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...neatly laid-out pastries) and bitterness (Gorky translates literally as "bitter"), epitomizes...of discomfort created in Mihailovs Sots Art series, the sense that becomes even more...away, looks as if he could belong at an American beach in the 1930s, while a stout older...
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Noguchi, Sculptural Abstraction, and the Politics of Japanese American Internment

Journal article by Amy Lyford; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003

Subjects:

Kouros (Sculpture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Noguchi, Isamu--Works, Sculptors--Works, Sculpture--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--History

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...show were David Aronson, Ben L. Culwell, Arshile Gorky, David Hare, Loren Maclver, Robert Motherwell...2.) Dorothy C. Miller, preface to Fourteen Americans (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), 8. (3.) One cannot help but sense the...
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Mural Gambits: Mexican Muralism in the United States and the "Portable" Fresco

Journal article by Anna Indych-Lopez; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007

Subjects:

Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Criticism and interpretation, Alfaro Siqueiros, David--Works, Mexican painting--Criticism and interpretation, Mexican painting--History, Mexican painting--Influence, Mural painting and decoration--Criticism and interpretation, Mural painting and decoration--History, Mural painting--Criticism and interpretation, Mural painting--History, Orozco, Jose Clemente--Criticism and interpretation, Orozco, Jose Clemente--Works, Painting, Mexican--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Mexican--History, Painting, Mexican--Influence, Rivera, Diego--Criticism and interpretation, Rivera, Diego--Works

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...States prompted a so-called Latin American art boom. The bad press that the...termed "socially conscious" art, which mixed Latin American realism with leftist modernist...frame 68, reel 4642, Archives of American Art (AAA), Smithsonian Institution...
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Materiality Is the Message

Journal article by Jeanne Siegel; Art Journal, Vol. 58, 1999

Subjects:

Painters--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Pollock, Jackson--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...permanent collection, by Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Lee Krasner, Willem de...Jeanne Siegel is Chair of Fine Arts and Art History at the School of Visual Arts and the former President of the American Section of the International Association...

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Magazine Articles on: american art and gorky

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"Picasso and American Art": Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Magazine article by Harry Cooper; Artforum International, Vol. 45, January 2007

Subjects:

Art museums--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Picasso, Pablo--Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions

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...Whitney Museum of American Art manages to drain...Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem...reproductions affected the American paintings that were...neglected by slide-based art history. Of course...1932 lithograph by Gorky includes a sketch...
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A Century of American Art and Culture

Magazine article by Barbara Haskell; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 128, July 1999

Subjects:

American art--History, Art, American--History, Culture--Portrayals, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...drillteam choreography of Busby Berkeley. The American Abstract Artists group modeled a utopian...harmony using a geometric, nonobjective art of order and stability, devoid of references...of abstract artists, including Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock...
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Lafayette, We Are Here: American Art in the 20th Century

Magazine article by Thomas Crow; Artforum International, Vol. 32, November 1993

Subjects:

Arts, American--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting, American--Exhibitions, Pollock, Jackson--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Europe a concentrated experience of American art of the first order. On a conceptual level...tradition of discriminating enthusiasm for American prodigies going back to the ecstasies of...Cornell boxes and five paintings by Arshile Gorky under a canopy of eight constructions by...
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The Evolutionary Curve - American Art in the 20th Century

Magazine article by Muriel Julius; Contemporary Review, Vol. 263, December 1993

Subjects:

Arts, American--Exhibitions, Exhibitions--Analysis, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...II and the beautifully chosen lyrical works of Arshile Gorky, the Turkish Armenian who fled to America in 1920 aged...precursors of the abstract expressionism that would dominate American art for two decades. Above these paintings float the ever...
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"Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936"

Magazine article by Daniel Kunitz; New Criterion, Vol. 20, February 2002

Subjects:

Cubism--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Descending a Staircase, No. 2. "The story of American Cubism begins with Max Weber," writes Cauman...Women, and The Bird (1914), with its spare, art-nouveau verticality and Matissean patterns...better-known painters, including a tantalizing Gorky, a wholly abstract canvas by Marsden Hartley...

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Newspaper Articles on: american art and gorky

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Art Collector Owes It All to Mummy

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 25, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with it. However, Mr. Ebsworth kept after him, and the Gorky now hangs over the fireplace in the den of the collectors...collecting. He has been supportive of the National Museum of American Art and other museums in addition to the National Gallery...
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De Kooning's Figures Left Mark on U.S. Art

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 23, 1997

Subjects:

De Kooning, Willem

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...years, he changed the course of American art over his six-decade career. Arriving...studio with fellow European Arshile Gorky and that he was influenced by Gorkys...fragmented. Miss Rose writes in "American Art Since 1900: A Critical History...
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Remarkable Art Exhibit

Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee; The Washington Times, March 3, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...examples of the most interesting period of 20th-century American art: paintings, sculpture and works on paper by such renowned...Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Hopper, Claes Oldenburg, Arshile Gorky, Jasper Johns, David Hockney and Jackson Pollock. "A...
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Painter Sees Big Picture as Context for His Art

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, September 14, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the National Museum of American Art four years ago. The studio...painters such as Arshile Gorky, John Graham and Stuart...The National Gallery of Art showed a selection of their...the challenge of previous art for the artist, of the...
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Rothko's Art Colored by Emotion

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, May 3, 1998

Subjects:

Rothko, Mark

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...misunderstood worldview in this show, his first American retrospective in 20 years. In the more...artist than previously thought. Rothkos art is deceptive, especially from the 1950s...as Joan Miro, Andre Masson and Arshile Gorky influenced Rothko with their use of myths...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american art and gorky

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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...toward abstraction. Such artists as Arshile Gorky , Mark Rothko , Morris Graves, Mark Tobey...created a bold and unique imagery that made American painting a dominant influence in world art (see abstract expressionism ). In sculpture...
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Gorky, Arshile

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ke, c.1900 48, American painter, b. Armenia...other artists, Gorky developed a figurative...radical turn in his art was prompted by...the age of 44. Gorky is well represented in American collections, e...Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney...
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Modern Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Rejection of Modernism The development of a new American art movement was held in abeyance until after World War II...expressionism with the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky , Jackson Pollock , and Willem de Kooning . Action...
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Abstract Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the first important school in American painting to declare its independence...influence the development of art abroad. Arshile Gorky first gave impetus to the movement...an enduring excitement to the American art scene. See M. Seuphor, Abstract...
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De Kooning, Willem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...d koo ning, 1904 97, American painter, b. Netherlands...Influenced by Arshile Gorky , de Kooning forged a...1951 52; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City), with...some sense, de Koonings art had outlived his conscious...beautifully simplified works of art. He finally stopped painting...

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