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Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies

Book by William C. Seitz, Julien Levy; Museum of Modern Art, 1962

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Gorky, Arshile--1904-1948

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...the International Program" . Gorky, p. 32-35 ill. , with...relevant museum catalogues: 46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years...6. BRETON ANDRE. Arshile Gorky. In Le Surrealisme et la peinture...Levy as introduction for his Gorky exhibition catalogue, Mar...7. CLAPP TALCOTT B. "A painter in a glass house". Sunday...
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Arshile Gorky: The Man, the Time, the Idea

Book by Harold Rosenberg; Grove Press, 1962

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Gorky, Arshile--1904-1948

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...63. Curl, Huldah. "Arshile Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Walker Art...2. 1 ill. de Elaine Kooning. "Gorky: Painter of His Own Legend", Art News...Goodnough, Robert. "Arshile Gorky", Art News , vol. 49 February...
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Maksim Gorky: Selected Letters

Book by Andrew Barratt, Barry P. Scherr; Oxford University, 1997

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Authors, Russian--19th Century--Correspondence, Authors, Russian--20th Century--Correspondence, Gorky, Maksim--1868-1936--Correspondence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...SOURCE: AG 9: 256-7. Chaliapins son was actually called Boris; Gorky recognizes his mistake in the postscript to this letter. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benois 1870-1960 , painter, theatre and ballet designer, art historian, and central figure...
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day

Book by Bernard S. Myers; Crown Publishers, 1979

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Painters--Biography, Painting--Dictionaries

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...1881-1962 . Russian-French painter, scenic designer, and sculptor...long relationship with the painter Mikhail Larionov. An important...patterns of Van Gogh and Gauguin. Gorky, Arshile 1904-48 . A contemporary...placement and interrelation GORKY , The Betrothal II Collection...
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New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century

Book by John I. H. Baur; New York Graphic Society, 1957

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Painters--United States, Painting, American

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...considerable influence on younger painters. Other artists reinvestigated...strongly influenced by the Dutch painter Mondrian. But by far the...this direction was Arshile Gorky, soon joined by a brilliant group of younger painters including Jackson Pollock...the hands of the different painters, styles of marked individuality...

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Journal Articles on: gorky painter

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R. S. Thomas's Poems about Paintings

Journal article by Robert Rehder; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 60, 2008

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Painters (Artists)--Portrayals, Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Portrayals, Painters--Works, Painting (Art)--Portrayals, Painting--Portrayals, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Thomas, R.S.--Criticism and interpretation, Thomas, R.S.--Works

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...a person looks for if they are not painters, a face being the most important part...completely uninterested in her as a painter, so there was a whole area of her...Portrait of a Young Woman, he notes the painters purposes: I imagine he intended other...Thomas chooses pictures by a variety of painters, but the differences in their styles...Portrait of Madame Gaudibert, is the painter the subject. Thomas accepts the paintings...
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A Centennial, Some Modern Masters, and Two Recluses

Journal article by Karen Wilkin; The Hudson Review, Vol. 57, 2004

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Art criticism, Art exhibits, Guston, Philip, New York City New York, Painting, Riga Latvia, Rothko, Mark, Visual artists

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...of countless younger painters reflects his influence...Knoedler were glorious Gorky drawings, a moody ink...phenomenally accomplished painter ever got. (Its hard...of Rodins.) Like the Gorky retrospective, "A Private...productive life as a painter were demonstrated by...
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Decadence, Sexuality, and the Bohemian Vision of Wallace Thurman

Journal article by Granville Ganter; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

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Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Thurman, Wallace--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...tastes are reflected in his multiple talents as painter, performer, and writer. When asked to explain...Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Gorky, Maxim. The Autobiography of Maxim Gorky: My Childhood. In the World. My Universities...
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Reviewed Elsewhere

Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and expansiveness of his personality. Gorky was a master at constructing myths about...captivating tale of an accomplished portrait painter turned inventor of the telegraph...referred to as "the supreme South African painter," Irma Stern, is based on 30 years...was one of the greatest Expressionist painters of her time. In this captivating "memoir...
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Bibliography: A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature for 1992

Journal article; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 46, 1993

Subjects:

American literature--Bibliography, Southern States--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Press of Mississippi and A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature...Press of Mississippi and A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature...written traditions." 138. Painter, Nell Irvin. "Of Lily, Linda...Press of Mississippi and A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature...

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Magazine Articles on: gorky painter

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Maxim Gorky and the Russian Revolution

Magazine article by Orlando Figes; History Today, Vol. 46, June 1996

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Gorky, Maxim--Evaluation, Russia--Revolution, 1917-1921, Stalin, Joseph--Political activity

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...means bitter in Russian). Gorky used the handsome profits of...glad of it, he once told the painter Repin, `for this is freedom...organised `proletariat. Although Gorky loved Lenin for his intellect...disciplined cadres for the Party. But Gorky and his co-educationalists...
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What the Mind's Eye Sees: Action Painters Were Postwar Exemplars of American Individualism

Magazine article by Jason Edward Kaufman; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008

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Modern painting--Criticism and interpretation, Modern painting--Exhibitions, Painting, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Modern--Exhibitions

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...the Minds Eye Sees: Action Painters Were Postwar Exemplars of American...Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann, among...mid-20th-century action painters, their celebrated works remain...including Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Clyfford Still, and their...
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Cezanne in Provence

Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 24, March 2006

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Cezanne, Paul--Exhibitions, French painters--Exhibitions, Impressionist artists--Exhibitions, Painters, French--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. National Gallery of Art--Exhibitions

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...thematically. We first meet the young painter at the Jas de Bouffan, the manor...property was sold, apparently to the painters chagrin, after his mothers death...foretelling expressionist works by painters not yet born. Even the little 1865...passionate but intensely cerebral painter. The pounding emotion of Cezannes...portrait of the barrel-chested painter glowering truculently against a background...in Provence" documents the mature painters repeated exploration of particular...
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Previews: Three Times a Year Artforum Looks Ahead to the Coming Season. the Following Survey Previews Fifty Shows Opening around the World between September and December

Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 48, September 2009

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Artists--Works, Fischer, Urs--Works, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Kandinsky, Wassily--Works, Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Works, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Portraits--Exhibitions

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...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED PHILADELPHIA Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM...in 1948 at age forty-four, Arshile Gorky was not only in the prime of his career...Rothenberg to the forefront of the New Image painters. Long settled in Galisteo, Texas...city where his father, the Surrealist painter Matta, was born, the Museo de Arte...
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Larry Rivers: Tibor De Nagy

Magazine article by Donald Kuspit; Artforum International, Vol. 48, October 2009

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Painters (Artists)--Works, Painters--Works, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Rivers, Larry--Works

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...from the 1950s and 60s presented Rivers instead as a "poet painter"--a reading of him most tellingly conveyed in the exuberant...bittersweet relationship to a "heroic" past. Like Arshile Gorky, Rivers paints it out, but it remains resonant in its gestural...

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Newspaper Articles on: gorky painter

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MOTHER'S BOY; the Armenian-Born Arshile Gorky Was Feted as the Father of American Abstract Expressionism -- but His Art Is Compelling Only When He Draws on the Tragic History of His Native Land; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 11, 2010

Subjects:

Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions

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

...place for a would-be painter between the wars...the Second World War. Gorky was neither well taught...was in high fashion, Gorky clumsily and tentatively...enthusiasm by American painters and noisily promoted...TATE Modern has given Gorky a far larger and grander...at best, a minor painter, often uncomprehending...
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A Painter's Worst Enemy; Saving Grace: Richard Hamilton's TheCitizen (1??)1-), an Icon of Political Protest That Brought Home to an English Audience the Horrors of Long Kesh Prison. the Prisoners, Protesting That They Were Political, Had No Clothes and No Lavatory Facilities for as Long as Five Years Wretched and Banal: Liu Xiaodong's Transsexual Getting Down Stairs

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 23, 2007

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Painters (Artists)--Demonstrations and protests, Painters--Demonstrations and protests, Prisoners--Demonstrations and protests

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

...a generality offigurative painters active in the later 20th century...Baudelaire to the littleFrench painters of low and everyday life in...Rugoffs alternative thesisthat painters are now dependent on preliminary...argued that he was, as a painter, trying to get as close as...this case Ingres,Magritte, Gorky and Manet), and they quote...
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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Painter sees big picture as context...Institute and hanging out with painters such as Arshile Gorky, John Graham and Stuart...Kainen and Color School painters Morris Louis and Kenneth...abstract-expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler and...
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PLEASE MAY I HAVE ONE OF THESE? There Is No Shock of the New at Charles Saatchi's Latest Show, but There Is Pleasure to Be Found in Old Ideas -- and Even a Few Works Worth Hanging on Your Own Wall; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 4, 2009

Subjects:

Advertising agencies--Exhibitions, Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions

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

...but no artist in this show is a match for those adventurers Gorky, Guston and Gottlieb, Rothko and Newman, Motherwell, Still...shades of blue favoured by Yves Klein, the most abstract of painters in the Fifties, and it reflects the abstract geometry of early...
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Women in Sports, Literature, Music Getting Their Due

Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 2, 2001

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

...Court, Vernon Hills. (847) 549-6030. Helen Frankenthaler: Inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, painter Helen Frankenthaler was among the second wave of Abstract Expressionists. Admired for her lyricism, Frankenthaler...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: gorky painter

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Gorky, Arshile

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

GORKY, ARSHILE ar shil gor ke, c.1900 48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian...and several other artists, Gorky developed a figurative style of...the works of Miro and Matta . Gorky began (c.1940) to create abstractions...
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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...demand for the fine arts. Such early painters as Washington Allston , Samuel F. B...gradual rise of a number of excellent genre painters Henry Inman , William Sidney Mount...Caleb Bingham . These were the earliest painters of the American scene. In addition...
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De Kooning, Willem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...WILLEM d koo ning, 1904 97, American painter, b. Netherlands; studied Rotterdam...throughout the 1930s. Influenced by Arshile Gorky , de Kooning forged a powerful abstract...in mid-1990. He was married to the painter Elaine Fried de Kooning (1920 1989...
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Matta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...sabastyan anton yo mat ta ekhar ren, 1911? 2002, Chilean painter who left his native country for Paris (1935) and thereafter...ideas on abstraction profoundly influenced his friend Arshile Gorky and were important to such exponents of abstract expressionism...
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Modern Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...In the second half of the 19th cent. painters began to revolt against the classic codes...frequently been of primary importance, painters, beginning with the impressionists in...constructivism (c.1913 c.1921), and the painter Casimir Malevich founded suprematism...the impetus of such artists as Arshile Gorky , Jackson Pollock , and Willem de Kooning...

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