1998, ISBN: 0701153636

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[EAN: 9780701153632], Near Fine, [PU: Chatto & Windus / Random House, London], Jacket, First UK edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITL… Meer...

[EAN: 9780701153632], Near Fine, [PU: Chatto & Windus / Random House, London], Jacket, First UK edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE '8.11.03. Dear Johnny and Fausten Eskenazy, With much love, Nouritza Matossian'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, not price clipped (£25.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 576pp, illustrated. Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (1904-48, Vostanik Manoug Adoian) was born in the village of Khorgom, situated on the shores of Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire, borrowed a famous Russian name from his hero Maxim Gorky, and paradoxically changed the course of American modern art, influencing painters such as de Kooning, Rothko and Pollock. The key to understanding his work is the true story of this tumultuous tragic life, told here for the first time. He lived through a world war, famine and the horrors of genocide before emigrating to America. Nouritza Matossian, herself of American origin, has returned to Gorky's roots in Van, travelled in his footsteps, and talked to his widow and family to recreate those traumatic early years. And sifting through published and unpublished letter, she has made startling discoveries which explain how his life and work came to be falsified, mythologised and misinterpreted. Matossian brilliantly integrates his personal and artistic biography, vividly conjuring up not only his background and life but also the American art scene between the wars and his extraordinary influence upon it. An important contribution to art history, this is a vibrant and controversial biography of a charismatic genius who hanged himself, aged 44, at the peak of his career., Books<

1998, ISBN: 9780701153632

London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. Cloth, xvi, 576 pages, [28] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lig… Meer...

London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. Cloth, xvi, 576 pages, [28] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lightly bumped, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "A powerfully revealing biography of Armenian-born Arshile Gorky -- the Picasso of Union Square, Hollywood Rasputin, magical storyteller, victim, tragic hero and one of the most mysterious yet influential of 20th-century artists. / Nouritza Matossian writes for the Observer, the Independent, Vogue and Harpers & Queen." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo., Chatto & Windus, 1998, 4<

1998, ISBN: 9780701153632

Chatto & Windus, 1998-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 9.2100 6.0600., Chatto & Windus, 1998-01-01, 3