Vosdanik Manouk Adoian a.k.a. Arshile Gorky

by Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender, Dore Ashton

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56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian (April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.

Gorky spent the last years of his life as a national of the United States and along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he's been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century.

The suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide had crucial influence on Gorky's development as an artist.

Reviews

[Randy Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this manuscript at Abril books which specializes in Armenian books. Arshile Gorky is one of my favorite artists and I am a native of Fresno. Recently I have gotten reacquainted with my Armenian affinity by an Armenian friend. He took me to Glendale and Abril books.

The brief essays and rather meager artifacts presented in this Fresno exhibition are still heartening to me. Had I known about the show I would have attended. I feel the love and appreciation for the artist and the ideas he expressed. Gorky suffered tremendous loss and his art became a way for him to channel that energy and transform it into an expression any one else.