Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2009-Jan. 2010, the Tate Modern, London, Feb.-May 2010, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June-Sept. 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Acknowledgments / Michael R. Taylor -- Rethinking Arshile Gorky / Michael R. Taylor -- Exile, trauma, and Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother / Kim Servant Theriault -- To organize painting / Harry Cooper -- "Flight from reality"? A reconsideration of Gorky's politics and approach to public murals in the 1930s / Jody Patterson -- Gorky and surrealism / Michael R. Taylor -- The painter's painter / Robert Storr -- Chronology / Melissa Kerr -- Exhibition history -- Bibliography / Clair Howard