Arshile Gorky

An examination of influential artist Arshile Gorky's life and work in New York City, exploring notions of exile, identity and authorship Born in Armenia, the artist Arshile Gorky arrived in the United States in 1920 as a teenaged refugee. Upon arriving in New York in 1924, he became a central figure of the cultural milieu in the city, later becoming a pivotal figure in the art world whose oeuvre straddles the worlds of Europe and America, surrealism and abstract expressionism. This book examines Gorky's life and work in New York City, including art historian Tamar Kharatishvili's exploration of forced displacement and self-fashioning to writer and essayist Adam Gopnik's discussion of Gorky's relationship to the visual culture of 1920s New York.