Rethinking Arshile Gorky / Kim S. Theriault.

Author
Theriault, Kim S. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
Description
xix, 243 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

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Summary note
"A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
Contents
  • Genocide, displacement, and identity
  • Constructions of gender, self, and other
  • Language, translation, and diaspora
  • Exile, abstraction, and nonobjectivity
  • Difference, likeness, and synthesis
  • Conflation, re-membering, and indeterminacy
  • Primitivism, the feminine, and orientalization
  • Enigma, erasure, and Arshile Gorky's afterlife.
ISBN
  • 9780271036472 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271036478 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780271036465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 027103646X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009023727
OCLC
406945422
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