"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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