Arshile Gorky : a retrospective / edited by Michael R. Taylor ; essays by Harry Cooper [and others] ; chronology by Melissa Kerr.

Author/creator Gorky, Arshile
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, ©2009.
Description399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Subjects
Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948--Exhibitions.

Other author/creatorTaylor, Michael R., 1966-
Other author/creatorCooper, Harry, 1959-
Other author/creatorPhiladelphia Museum of Art.
Other author/creatorTate Modern (Gallery)
Other author/creatorMuseum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contents Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Acknowledgments / Michael R. Taylor -- Rethinking Arshile Gorky / Michael R. Taylor -- Exile, trauma, and Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother / Kim Servant Theriault -- To organize painting / Harry Cooper -- "Flight from reality"? A reconsideration of Gorky's politics and approach to public murals in the 1930s / Jody Patterson -- Gorky and surrealism / Michael R. Taylor -- The painter's painter / Robert Storr -- Chronology / Melissa Kerr -- Exhibition history -- Bibliography / Clair Howard.
General notePublished on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2009-Jan. 2010, the Tate Modern, London, Feb.-May 2010, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June-Sept. 2010.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 381-385) and index.
LCCN 2009027692
ISBN9780876332139 (pma cloth)
ISBN0876332130 (pma cloth)
ISBN9780876332146 (pma paper)
ISBN0876332149 (pma paper)
ISBN9780300154412 (yale cloth)
ISBN0300154410 (yale cloth)

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Joyner General Stacks N6537.G65 A4 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold