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Arshile Gorky: Beyond The Limit

HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERS
Text by Parker Field, Pepe Karmel.

The astounding story of a newly discovered Gorky painting

Hbk, 10.25 x 12.5 in. / 80 pgs / 29 color / 20 bw. | 2/1/2022 | In stock
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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song

HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERS
Edited by Matthew Spender.

Flexi, 6.25 x 9 in. / 600 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 6/26/2018 | In stock
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Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47

HAUSER & WIRTH PUBLISHERS
Edited by Saskia Spender. Foreword by Saskia Spender. Text by Edith Devaney.

Exploring nature’s central role in establishing the singular voice of a pioneering figure in abstract expressionism

Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 140 pgs / 79 color / 3 bw. | 1/23/2018 | In stock
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Arshile Gorky: Works, Writings, Interviews

EDICIONES POLíGRAFA
Text by Robert S. Mattison.

Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color. | 2/28/2010 | Not available
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Arshile Gorky: Beyond The LimitArshile Gorky: Beyond The Limit

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Text by Parker Field, Pepe Karmel.

In 1946, Arshile Gorky (1904–48) spent the summer at Crooked Run Farm in Lincoln, Virginia. In this time he produced almost 300 drawings, including a study for one of his most remarkable paintings, The Limit (1947)—which he described as the outcome of being "so lonely, exasperated, and how to paint such empty space—so empty it's the limit." Also among Gorky’s output that summer was a related series later referred to as the Virginia Summer drawings. During a 2020 treatment on The Limit, conservators discovered another work nested behind it—an expressively painted canvas immediately recognizable by its relationship to the Virginia Summer drawings. Beyond The Limit reveals this newly discovered painting, referred to as Untitled (Virginia Summer). A series of brushstroke details positions readers close to both canvases, along with a plate section that presents both paintings, select drawings and reference works.



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Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948Arshile Gorky: 1904–1948

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Preface by Maria Cristina Gribaudi. Text by Gabriella Belli, Edith Devaney, Saskia Spender.

Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (c. 1904–48) made his first mature works in New York City in the mid-1920s, by which point the traumatic history of the 20th century had already made him a genocide survivor and an exile from his homeland. Channeling his study of the modern masters through his own painful experiences and poignant memories, in two decades Gorky produced a huge body of deeply personal, emotionally intense lyrical abstractions that had a huge influence on his contemporaries.

Arshile Gorky explores the strength of Gorky’s artistic voice throughout the stages of his remarkable, though tragically short, career. Featuring more than 80 paintings and works on paper drawn from public and private collections around the world, this volume presents a comprehensive retrospective survey of the artist’s work. New essays by curators Edith Devaney, Gabriella Belli and Saskia Spender, the artist’s granddaughter and President of the Arshile Gorky Foundation, explore the artist’s life, work and subsequent influence.

Tracing how Gorky interweaved motifs, references and painterly flourishes in paintings and elaborate works on paper, Arshile Gorky reveals the artist’s unique position as a bridge between Europe and America, between surrealism and abstract expressionism. He remained a pivotal figure after his untimely death, influencing many other artists; Willem de Kooning acknowledged Gorky as a “driving force” among his generation of painters.



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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 104   

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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the SongArshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song

A Life in Letters and Documents

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Edited by Matthew Spender.

Author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof, with never-before-published material, including diary entries and letters from the artist’s wife as well as additional contextual documents. Arshile Gorky is increasingly considered an important influence on the development of abstract expressionism. From Gorky’s turbulent childhood fleeing the Armenian genocide in Turkey, to his adulthood in the United States, to his suicide in his forties after a traumatic series of physical and emotional setbacks, this biography offers an intimate window into the artist’s life, telling his story through many voices: his letters, sent and received; the correspondence of family and friends; pivotal reviews and criticism; newspaper articles and other essential documents.

With new design integrating a fuller range of artwork and archival images, the book provides a more comprehensive portrait of Gorky, showing his struggle for recognition, his devotion to his family and his connection to his Armenian heritage. The artist’s life story unfolds through his personal letters, the correspondence between friends and family and key contemporary reviews.

Arshile Gorky (1904–48) immigrated from Ottoman Armenia to the US in 1920. After five years living under strained conditions with his family in Massachusetts, Gorky moved to New York and became absorbed into the cultural milieu of a city on the brink of modernism. From 1946, Gorky suffered a series of crises: his studio burned down, he underwent an operation for cancer and his wife had an affair with Roberto Matta. Gorky hanged himself in 1948, at the age of 44. He is buried in North Cemetery in Sherman, Connecticut.



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Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
Edited by Saskia Spender. Foreword by Saskia Spender. Text by Edith Devaney.

Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943–47 is the first book to explore nature’s central role in establishing the singular voice of this truly pioneering figure in abstract expressionism. In the early 1940s, Gorky turned to nature as a primary subject matter, inspired by his summers spent in Connecticut and rural Virginia. The resulting works from this career-defining period, filled with a bold use of color, line and composition, and infused with an explosive expressive freedom, are some of the most evocative works of Gorky’s career. Featuring over 50 landscapes from this period, including paintings and works on paper, the book opens with a personal foreword from the artist’s granddaughter (and the show’s curator). The book continues with an essay from Edith Devaney, curator of the celebrated 2016 Abstract Expressionism show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, which traces the development of the Armenian-American artist’s passion and instinct for art along the arc of his career, highlighting key links to Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.



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Arshile Gorky: Works, Writings, InterviewsArshile Gorky: Works, Writings, Interviews

Published by Ediciones Polígrafa.
Text by Robert S. Mattison.

Born on the shores of Armenia's Lake Van, Arshile Gorky immigrated to the United States in 1920 and went on to become one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century. Gorky was both a forefather to and a seminal figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement years before Pollock and Motherwell, he found ways to extend Surrealist dream imagery into a uniquely American abstraction, simply by pursuing Surrealism's insistence on the authenticity of interior experience freely transcribed on canvas--also the logic of much New York Abstract Expressionism. For Gorky this was no easy endeavor: critic Meyer Schapiro called him a "fervent scrutinizer" of paintings, an ability corroborated by his close friend Willem de Kooning (whose own painting owes much to Gorky): "for some mysterious reason, he knew lots more about painting, and art... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head." Although Gorky's life was cut short by his suicide in 1948, the tremendously influential legacy that he left behind has secured his reputation as the last of the great Surrealist painters and one of the first Abstract Expressionists. Here, reproductions of key works are accompanied by Gorky's own writings and a collection of interviews.

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