More than 20 years ago, sculptor Matthew Spender and his wife left England for what they intended to be a brief interlude in Tuscany. In his memoir Spender takes us on a meditative tour of the place he now calls home - ranging back in time to the 1260 battle of Montaperti when for the last time the Sienese defeated the Florentines, through the ...
A biography of the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky, born Vostanig Adoian. Gorky was a central figure among the European exiled painters in New York from the 1920s to 1940s, whose artistic style drew from Cezanne and Picasso, and later, Surrealism. Spender married Gorky's oldest daughter, Maro, facilitating his access to primary source ...
A travel book which aims both to convey what it is like to live in Tuscany from the viewpoint of an Englishman who has made it his home for more than 20 years, and to reveal something of the country's rich historical background. The book is a combination of historical enquiry, observation and fictional intrigue, written by a man who has been ...
This exhibition catalogue of thirty-nine drawings, many neither shown nor published before, displays the richness of Arshile Gorky's production as a draftsman over several years crucial to his development. Documenting the emergence of Gorky's unmistakably unique & intensely personal pictorial language, the exhibition examines the complex ...
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Arshile Gorky, Philip Rylands, Matthew Spender, Rome (Italy). Assessorato alla cultura, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Italy) Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome
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