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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents

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A remarkable addition to the ever-evolving scholarship on Arshile Gorky, 'The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents' chronicles the artist's life and work through his personal letters, correspondence between friends and family, and key contemporary reviews. The publication features never-before-published materials, including diary entries from Gorky's late wife, as well as letters and archival images.

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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents

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$50.00
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Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Publication Date

May 2018

ISBN

9783906915081

Pages

584 pages

Size

24 x 18 cm

Editor

Matthew Spender

Composition

Flexicover

The Artist

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky was born an ethnic Armenian in Ottoman Anatolia in c.1904. Fleeing the genocide that claimed the life of his mother, he emigrated to the United States as a teenage refugee in 1920. After five years with relatives in Massachusetts, Gorky moved to New York and changed his name in honor of the celebrated Russian poet. Refusing all categories, whether artistic or political, as necessarily reductive, Gorky forsook assimilation in favor of celebrating his otherness, becoming a central figure of the cultural milieu of a city on the brink of Modernism.
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