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Title: From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: E. V. Thaw
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 18Issue: 2Page: 64

Article Type: Book Review

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Toros Roslin, Arshile Gorky, Carlos Sayadyan, Arthur Sarkissian, Hovsep Pushman, Ivan Aivazovsky, Martiros Saryan, Harutyun Kalents, Teodor Axentowicz, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Eduard Arakelyan, Koryun Nahapetyan, Karen Aghamyan, Minas Avetisyan, Mariam Aslamazian, Hakob Hakobian, Panos Terlemezian, Alexander Boghossian, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, Mikael Arutchian, Haratyun Kalents, Stepan Aghajanian, Sarkis Ordyan, Sargis Pitsak, Gevorg Bashinjaghyan. Excerpt:Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (1937 in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia May 4, 2003) was an Ethiopian -Armenian painter . Boghossian won second prize at the Jubilee Anniversary Celebration of Haile Selassie I in 1954; the next year he was granted a scholarship which allowed him to study in Europe . He spent two years in London , working at St. Martin's School, the Central School, and the Slade School . He then spent nine years studying and teaching at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris . In 1966 he returned home, teaching at Addis Ababa 's School of Fine Arts until 1969. In 1970 he emigrated to the United States , teaching at Howard University from 1972 until 2001. Boghossian was the first contemporary African artist to have his work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art ; his paintings are also in the collections of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC . References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (pronounced / r i l rki / , born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan ; Armenian : , ), (April 15, 1904? July 21, 1948) was an Armenian -born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism . Biography Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother (ca. 1926-1936), Whitney Museum of American Art , New York City . Gorky made two versions of The Artist and His Mother... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Arshile Gorky (pronounced , born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan; Armenian: ), (April 15, 1904? July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother (ca. 1926-1936), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Gorky made two versions of The Artist and His Mother, the other is in the National Gallery of Art Washington, DC. The painting has been likened to Ingres for simplicity of line and smoothness, to Egyptian Funerary art for pose, to Cézanne for flat planar composition, to Picasso for form and color..Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom, situated on the shores of Lake Van. It is not known exactly when he was born: it was sometime between 1902 and 1905. (In later years Gorky was vague about even the date of his birth, changing it from year to year.) In 1910 his father emigrated to America to avoid the draft, leaving his family behind in the town of Van. Gorky fled Lake Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the aftermath of the genocide, Gorky's mother died of starvation in Yerevan in 1919. Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close. At age 31, Gorky married. He changed his name to Arshile Gorky, in the process reinventing his identity (he even told people he was a relative of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky). The paintings of Armenian-American Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure of Abstract Expressionism, were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss of the period. His The Artist and His Mother paintings are based on a childhood photograph taken in Van in which... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=354408 ... Read more