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Rethinking Arshile Gorky

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A reexamination of the art of Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), and an exploration of his role in the development of modern abstraction in America.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Genocide, Displacement, and Identity

2. Constructions of Gender, Self, and Other

3. Language, Translation, and Diaspora

4. Exile, Abstraction, and Nonobjectivity

5. Difference, Likeness, and Synthesis

6. Conflation, Re-membering, and Indeterminacy

7. Primitivism, the Feminine, and Orientalization

8. Enigma, Erasure, and Arshile Gorky’s Afterlife

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index



Rethinking [Arshile] Gorky is truly a breakthrough publication. It firmly places Gorky as both an artist of note and a sage who tells us, in vivid images, about the brutal impact of genocide on the survivor. Theriault’s book offers scholars of art history and genocide studies a foundation for understanding both Gorky and his art in the right context—as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Theriault has unveiled his abstract images and rebuilt his memory, constructing a new view of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.”

—Sara Cohan, Genocide Studies and Prevention

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