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  Maxim Gorky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorky became an orphan at the age of nine and was brought up by his grandmother, an excellent storyteller.
Gorky, Kaganovich, Molotov, Voroshilov, Stalin and Kalinin at the podium of Lenin's mausoleum.
Gorky's return from fascist Italy was a major propaganda victory for the Soviets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maxim_Gorky   (887 words)

  
 Arshile Gorky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When Gorky was four, his father emigrated to America to avoid the draft, leaving his son behind.
In letters to his sisters Gorky often described moods of melancholy, and expressed loneliness and emptiness, nostalgia for his country; and bitterly and vividly recalled the circumstances of his mother's death.
His studio barn burned down; he underwent a colostomy for cancer; his neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident; and his wife of seven years left him, taking their children with her.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arshile_Gorky   (360 words)

  
 Gorky, Maxim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Gorky is considered the father of Soviet literature and the founder of the doctrine of socialist realism.
Although philosophically at odds with Lenin, Gorky was able to extract from him aid for many intellectuals and artists in an era of intellectual restriction.
Gorky’s death at 68 has been ascribed to assassination by poison, perpetrated according to one view by an anti-Soviet group.
www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gorky-Ma.html   (573 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky
Gorky became a Marxist but he was later to say that was largely because of the teachings of the village baker, Vasilii Semenov.
Gorky worked with the Liberation of Labour group and in October, 1889 was arrested and accused of spreading revolutionary propaganda.
Gorky also upset other supporters by sending a telegram of support to William Haywood, the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, who was in prison waiting to be tried for the murder of the politician, Frank Steunenberg.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSgorky.htm   (3621 words)

  
 Arshile Gorky - AMAM
Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Manook Adoian in Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, a village in the province of Van, a center of ancient Armenian culture.
Gorky's mother died of malnutrition in December 1918, during a winter of severe deprivation for the Armenian refugees.
Gorky's "breakthrough" painting (or paintings) were the later canvases of the Garden of Sochi series (1940-43), one of which was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in 1942.
www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/gorky_arshile.html   (1701 words)

  
 Gorky, Maksim - SovLit.com - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors
Although allied with the Bolsheviks, Gorky thought their seizure of power in October of 1917 was premature; and he used his paper to criticize various aspects of the Bolshevik program.
Gorky accused the Bolsheviks of adventurism and dogmatism and claimed they were in danger of destroying Russian culture "in the chaos arising from their crude instincts." The Bolsheviks accused Gorky of betraying the revolution.
Gorky served as head of the Writers Union from 1934 until his death on 18 June 1936.
www.sovlit.com /bios/gorky.html   (1749 words)

  
 Brain-Juice | Biography of Arshile Gorky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gorky was one of the first artists to enlist with the Public Works of Art project in 1933, formed to give artists work during the Depression.
Gorky always worked hard for little material reward, and he was as uncompromising in his personal life as he was in his art.
Gorky suffered a fractured back and neck and was put in an enormous leather neck brace that held his head up.
www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=82   (1459 words)

  
 Arshile Gorky Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gorky was born Vosdanik Adoian in 1904 in Khorkom, Armenia.
During this difficult time Gorky witnessed the death of his mother by starvation as she sacrificed herself for the lives In the 1940s Gorky began to merge ideas from surrealism with his admiration for the art of Joan Miro and Wassily Kandinsky.
The dramatic intensity of Gorky's later works, such as Agony (1947) from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, coincided with a series of disasters in the artist's life including a fire in his studio, an automobile accident in which his painting arm was paralyzed, and a separation from his second wife and their children.
www.themodern.org /gorky.html   (695 words)

  
 Mark Twain and Maxim Gorky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gorky did not appear in evening dress, but in the blue blouse, buttoned high up at the neck, which is familiar from the pictures of him which have appeared in print.
Maxim Gorky was still the recipient yesterday of the devoted homage of his countrymen in New York and of the friends in this city of the cause of freedom for Russia.
Gorky, and a protracted comedy of errors was enacted on the ninth floor while Mr.
www.twainquotes.com /19060412.html   (1958 words)

  
 Arshile Gorky and the Whitney Museum of American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She recalled first encountering Gorky in 1928, through a friend who was studying with him at the Grand Central School of Art, but did not get to know him until she returned from Paris and began studying with him in January 1934.
Perhaps Gorky's fragile health was at the back of Ethel's mind when, in the spring of 1948, she conceived the idea of writing a book on Gorky.
Arguably Gorky's masterpiece, this painting is based on a photograph of the young Gorky and his mother, taken in 1912, before the Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I, when Gorky, his mother, and his sister were sent on a death march.
www.whitney.org /research/gorky/content.html   (5917 words)

  
 CNN.com - Arshile Gorky: Breaking into abstraction - Nov. 26, 2003
Gorky was born Vosdanik Adoian around 1904 in the village of Khorkom in the province of Van, east Armenia.
While "Arshile Gorky, 1904 to 1948: A Retrospective" at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in 1981 was the most comprehensive survey to date, the Whitney's exhibit is the most comprehensive display of his drawings, said curator Lee.
Gorky's struggle to abstract what he sees is evident in a subsequent work from 1946, also titled "Drawing." The simple graphite on paper drawing using light lines does not fully abstract the image of a cow.
www.cnn.com /2003/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/11/26/gorky.exhibit.ap   (945 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
Gorky's teenage years were spent working in Kazan as a baker, docker, and night watchman.
In addition, the authorities had Gorky's election to the Imperial Academy of Russian Artists overturned, sparking a storm of controversy, even from the mild-mannered Chekhov who resigned from the academy in protest.
In 1928, Gorky yielded to great public pressure to return to Russia, and upon his return, he was greeted with extravagant festivities.
www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc73.html   (1014 words)

  
 Arshile Gorky
Gorky fue un alma armenia que se esforzó por insertarse en su nuevo contexto americano, haciéndose pasar por un exiliado ruso, pero nunca lo logró.
Gorky supo plasmar en estos retratos una cualidad eterna y una atmósfera de alienación y tristeza.
Gorky continuó pintando directamente desde la naturaleza y así surgieron obras excelentes como la serie "The plow and the song", del año 1947.
www.salvador.edu.ar /transox/0101/gorki.html   (4893 words)

  
 Maksim Gorki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gorky became involved in a secret printing press and was temporarily exiled to Arzamas, central Russia in 1902.
Gorky based her character on a real person, Anna Zalomova, who had travelled the country distributing revolutionary pamphlets after her son had been arrested during a demonstration.
The murder of Gorky's son in 1934 was seen as an attempt to break the father.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gorki.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney To Present Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective Of Drawings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arshile Gorky (Vosdanik Adoian) was born in 1904 or 1905 (there are differing accounts of the date) in the province of Van in Armenia.
Gorky’s artistic development can be defined in part by the transitions between rural and urban environments that marked the turning points in his life.
Interpretations differ as to the source of these forms: some believe Gorky’s inventions were inspired by plants and insects that he observed during his walks in the countryside, while others claim that these images recall genitals or viscera and must have welled up from Gorky’s subconscious fantasies.
www.whitney.org /information/press/123.html   (1339 words)

  
 Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Arshile Gorky (1904—1948)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Adoian in the village of Khorkom, province of Van, Armenia, on April 15, 1904.
In 1930 Gorky’s work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Gorky’s first solo show in New York was held at the Boyer Galleries in 1938.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /english/06_artists/gorky.htm   (373 words)

  
 YOJOE.COM | Lt. Gorky
Gorky was released as part of the fifteenth series (1998) in the Oktober Guard three pack with Colonel Brekhov and Volga.
Gorky came with a fl rifle, a fl backpack, and a fl battle stand.
Gorky's entire mold was originally used to create Big Bear (1992).
www.yojoe.com /action/98/gorky.shtml   (112 words)

  
 Twain and the Gorky scandal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gorky, have been staying as guests of H. Gaylord Wilshire, discovered yesterday from a published story what has been no secret since their arrival - that is, that the so-called Mme.
The relations which led to Gorky and his companion being dispossessed from the Belleclaire, and which may tend to alienate many influential Americans who had committed themselves to aid him in raising funds and arousing sympathy here for the cause of Russian freedom, had long been known to Gorky's friends.
Gorky has another wife and two children, from whom he is separated, but in Russia, where such relations are regarded differently from the American view of them, Gorky has invariably introduced Mme.
www.twainquotes.com /19060415b.html   (1368 words)

  
 Armenian Weekly Online: August 2004, culture, Arshile Gorky, Armenia
A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, Gorky committed suicide in 1948 at the age of 44, and was buried in a cemetery near his studio in Sherman, CT.
Gorky’s son-in-law, Italy-based writer Matthew Spender, announced that the move to transfer Gorky’s remains to Armenia “eventually requires the permission of Gorky’s descendants,” including Gorky’s daughter, Spender’s wife Maro.
Gorky’s resting place in Connecticut is final,” emphasized Spender, who wrote the 1999 biography From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky.
www.hairenik.com /armenianweekly/august_2004/culture001.html   (447 words)

  
 Maxim Gorky, "The Craftsmen of Culture," 1934   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was born Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov at Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky).
His subsequent novels were weakened a bit by the inclusion of long passages on the meaning of life.
And it is from the height of this great aim that we honest writers of the Union of Soviets must examine, appraise and organize our work.
www.historyguide.org /europe/gorky.html   (466 words)

  
 Gorky, Maxim on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Richard Wright's long journey from Gorky to Dostoevsky.
Arshile Gorky: 'How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life,' 1944.
The formula of self-formation: Bildung and vospitanie in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Gorky's Mother.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gorky-m1a.asp   (747 words)

  
 Gorky - Coolest City in the World
A major river port and a rail and air center, Gorky is one of the chief industrial cities of the Russian Federation.
Gorky is the site of one of the largest automobile factories in Russia, and producer of heavy machinery, steel, chemicals, and textiles.
From that point on, every game we played, we'd have a city named Gorky, and it would be the most powerful one we had.
www.zutroy.com /gorky.htm   (484 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Early albums were filled with dense psychedelic pop songs (whose surreal feel was enhanced when the band members occasionally sang in their native Welsh) as well as bizarre illustrations and photos depicting the band as forest-bound wizards and gnomes.
Over their last few releases, however, Gorky's have refined their music and image, leaving behind the gimmicks and costumes for a subtle sound that is as hypnotic as it is catchy.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have been unobtrusively producing the sweetest, most melodic,folk/pop music on the planet for quite a while now.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005N53G?v=glance   (1093 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following Gorky's emigration to the U.S. in 1920 and his name change from Manouk Adoian (he claimed to be the cousin of Russian writer Maxim Gorky), Herrera establishes the bulk of the narrative around Gorky's paintings, describing what he was working on when and under what circumstances.
Most of Gorky's work life was based in New York, where, by the 1930s, he was paid a salary by the WPA for murals and other work in his surrealist style, largely derived from Miro and Leger, as the 64 pages of color and b&w images affirm.
For Arshile Gorky, born Vosdanig Adoian in Armenian Turkey around 1900, painting was "like trying to twist the devil," a phrase emblematic of the heroic struggles of his brief and arduous life.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374113238?v=glance   (1517 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Music: 20 - the Singles Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As you listen to 20, a collection of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's early singles, it's hard to understand how the Coral became a critical and commercial phenomenon while Gorky's remain a cultish footnote in rock history.
In the mid-90s, the Carmarthen teenagers stumbled upon many of the same attributes that have served the Coral so well: a faintly alarming eclecticism that usually coalesces into something in the neighbourhood of psychedelia or folk-rock, a proud disconnection from prevailing trends and a quirky, almost hippyish sense of humour.
But the magic of Gorkys is also their determined oddness and unpredictability.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007E71S   (496 words)

  
 Gorky, Arshile --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Gorky's early life was disrupted when his father abandoned Turkey, his wife, and his family in order to avoid service…
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Gorky created shapes suggesting living creatures by using a free and delicately linear painting style.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037442?tocId=9037442   (619 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Gorky Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Gorky Park" and the other Renko novels are so far above genre, they make the rest look really bad, and they provide hope for genre novels in general: talent should not be divorced from entertainment.
Gorky Park, the opening book in a (to date) quartet of novels concerning a brilliant, socially disaffected detective from Moscow, is as much a tale of late Soviet life as it is a mystery and thriller.
"Gorky Park" is his first novel to feature Arkady Renko, was first published in 1981 and is largely set in the Moscow before the collapse of the USSR.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345298349?v=glance   (2280 words)

  
 News: Gorky Zero trailer - GamersHell.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Metropolis Software (Archangel, Gorky 17) has released the first trailer for Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor, offering a minute and a half of high res gameplay footage for this upcoming tactical action game set in a military environment.
Gorky Zero events take place a few years before the times of Gorky 17 as we participate in one of Sullivan's first missions that is a secret operation in the Ukraine.
The action in Gorky Zero will be shown from two cameras.
www.gamershell.com /news/8548.html   (451 words)

  
 MGF: Demo - Strategy & War - Gorky 17 Demo
GORKY 17 combines the best of three genres: (I) exploration and interaction with your environment (adventure), (II) character development (RPG), (III) engrossing battles with a wide variety of enemies (strategy).
Adventure elements are smoothly woven into the strategic battles, to create an exciting world and get you intensely involved in the scheme of things.
GORKY 17 is built for MacOS X and requires at least a G3-300, 128 MByte RAM and an 8 MByte Videoboard.
www.macgamefiles.com /detail.php?item=17170   (214 words)

  
 Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky by Nouritza Matossian
A colour portrait of Nouritza Matossian as Gorky's mother Shushanig from her performance Black Angel, A Double Life of Arshile Gorky is on the front cover.
It is a collection of portraits of Armenian personalities such as Charles Aznavour, Peter Balakian, Atom Egoyan and essays on history, art, music film, politics, historic places, written by a panel of authors such as Yehuda Bauer, Vahakn Dadrian, Taner Akcam, edited by Huberta von Voss.
The performance connects Gorky to his Armenian origins, and concerns the ways in which cultural traditions, politics and personal history are intertwined.
www.nouritza.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk   (842 words)

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