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Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
\"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The bold and the beautiful
The breakthrough in Gorky's work came in the summer of 1943, when Mougouch's mother invited him, Mougouch and their infant daughter, [Maro], to stay at her farm in Virginia. '[Arshile Gorky] came back one day with this rather complicated drawing and said, \"Will anybody understand this? Do you think I'm mad?\"' Mougouch told him his drawing was marvellous and to go back into the fields and make more. 'This summer was the real release of Gorky,' Mougouch wrote to an aunt. Thanks to the dramatic change in Gorky's painting, the dealer Julien Levy took him on and gave him a show in 1945. Then came the first of a series of disasters that made Gorky's last years a calvary. On 16 January 1946 his studio at their house in Connecticut burnt down and many of his paintings were lost. Early in March disaster struck again. Gorky underwent a colostomy for rectal cancer. He became, Mougouch recalls, 'totally paranoid... a tree cut down'. No matter how hard she tried to convince him that his 'rearranged body' did not disgust her, he himself, a fiercely fastidious man, was revolted. He sometimes burst out in violence. Mougouch wrote to [Jeanne Reynal], 'Gorky has to do some drawing or he & I will die.' Soon, 'working like a mad man - a happy one', as Mougouch wrote, Gorky was drawing as though it were a race against mortality. But his total focus on work was distancing. 'More and more our marriage was just about my engagement with Gorky's painting,' she recalls. 'But I loved him.' She wrote him letters of encouragement when she took her daughters away for the summer: 'Everything that comes from your beautiful hand seems touched with magic that sings in my chest.' Gorky wrote back, 'When you return I want my harvest too [sic] be very big and good... You are with me my darling without you I could not go on working.'
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فريدا : سيرة حياة فريدا كاهلو
تسهب المؤلفة هايدن هيريرا في سرد سيرة فريدا كاهلو، وهي لا تترك أي تفصيل من تفاصيل حياتها من دون أن تذكره، فتعقبت مشاجراتها مع زوجها، وانفصالها عنه، وتعرضها لمرض شلل الأطفال، الذي خلف عوقا بساقها، مما ترك ذلك أثرا نفسيا سيئا عليها لفترة طويلة من حياتها. عشقت فريدا كاهلو النحات نوغوتشي، وصديقهما وضيفهما تروتسكي، أما فنان الجداريات دييغو ريفيرا، فقد كانت له علاقة غرامية مدمرة مع شقيقتها كريستينا. كانت هنالك لحظات من التهكم الساخر والبذاءة. لكنها استغرقت رويدا رويدا في عملها الفني، وهذا ما كان يشجعها عليه زوجها على الدوام. كما تكشف هيريرا في نهاية كتابها اللحظات الأخيرة من حياتها حين أدمنت تعاطي الأدوية المخدرة وضاعفت الجرعات التي وصفها لها الأطباء الجراحون. ونحن نقرأ ما كتبته هيريرا نلمس عن كثب تعاطف المؤلفة مع الرسامة المكسيكية، كما لو أنها كانت إحدى صديقاتها المقربات، أو شقيقتها، أو جارتها، أو زميلتها في المدرسة، هذا التعاطف الذي وصل إلى درجة التماهي، حتى إن عيني المتلقي تكادان تتخضبان بالدمع وهو يطالع الصفحات الأخيرة من هذا الكتاب، حين اشتد المرض على فريدا ولم تعد قادرة على النهوض من سريرها والقيام بأبسط الأفعال. كانت العمليات الجراحية المتتالية قد استنزفت طاقتها، وجردتها من حيويتها ورباطة جأشها ومرحها، ولم تعد ترغب في استقبال الآخرين، وحتى الأطفال لم تعد تطيق حضورهم وصخبهم.
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Frida the artist ; A new film tells the story of Frida Kahlo's love for Diego Rivera. But her paintings reveal the tragedy of her life
[Frida Kahlo] died in 1954, but for the past 20 years at least, the force and beauty of her strange paintings have made her a cult figure. The release next week of the film Frida, starring Salma Hayek, will bring more attention; yet during the artist's lifetime, and for two decades after her death, she was not acclaimed. Kahlo painted to ease her isolation, to create an alternate Frida that could provide a kind of company and could cope with life's blows. Since illness often confined her at home, her paintings were a way of amplifying her life, taking herself into the world. . Frida, released next week, is based on Frida: the Biography of Frida Kahlo, by Hayden Herrera, published in a new paperback version by Bloomsbury on 7 March.
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Master And Muse
Herrera presents a profile of Agnes \"Mougouch\" Gorky, widow of Surrealist painter Arshile Gorky, who became Herrera's stepmother after Gorky's death. Although their marriage was anything but sedate, Mougouch was the perfect wife for an eccentric artist.
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Fashion & Features: Master and Muse
The painter Arshile Gorky's relationship with his wife, Mougouch, was passionate, turbulent—and misunderstood
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