Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years
- ISBN-10
- 0914782924
- ISBN-13
- 9780914782926
- Series
- Arshile Gorky
- Category
- Art / Individual Artists / General
- Pages
- 188
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
- Authors
- Dore Ashton, Michael Auping, Arshile Gorky
Description
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) is recognized as one of the most crucial and intriguing figures in the early shaping of Abstract Expressionism. Gorky pioneered a complex vocabulary of forms by fusing landscapes remembered from his childhood home in Armenia with surrealist imagery and abstract plumes of color. In so doing, he helped create a distinctly new vision for painting, leading American art into one of the most experimental periods in its history. Gorky's most important paintings and drawings were executed from 1940 through 1947, powerfully expansive years that many regard as his breakthrough period. His rich, mature work of these years is the focus of this illuminating volume, the most comprehensive book on the subject.
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