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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky
by Matossian, Nouritza
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1585670065
- ISBN 13
- 9781585670062
- Seller
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About This Item
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000. xvi, 576 pages, [28] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "In this first full-scale biography of the artist Robert Hughes called 'a kind of Bridge of Sighs between Surrealism and America,' Nouritza Matossian charts the life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most mysterious of major twentieth-century artists. Born in Armenia, he survived the Turkish genocide begun in 1915 and arrived in America in 1920. One of the first abstract expressionists, he was a major influence on the New York art scene, which included de Kooning, Rothko, Pollock, and others. After a devastating series of illnesses, injuries, and personal setbacks, he committed suicide at the age of 46. In Black Angel, Nouritza Matossian uses for the first time Gorky's original letters in Armenian and other new source material, writing with authority and insight about the powerful influence Gorky's Armenian heritage had upon his painting. She also provides an informed and important critique of the entire body of Gorky's major work." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Nouritza Matossian writes for the Observer , the Independent , Vogue and Harpers & Queen . From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110958
- Title
- Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky
- Author
- Matossian, Nouritza
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1585670065
- ISBN 13
- 9781585670062
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock, NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Movements / Abstract Expressionism;
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