Anthony Holslag’s `On the stones of Ararat’ released in Holland
13.02.2010 16:36 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Aspekt publishing house in Netherlands released
Anthony Holslag’s `On the stones of Ararat’ (In het gesteente van
Ararat) book series. Causes and effects of Armenian Genocide are
described in the set of 6 books.

`On the stones of Ararat’, based on historic documents and eye-witness
events, also portrays the life and work of acclaimed Armenian painter
Arshile Gorky, a representative of Armenian Diaspora and Genocide
survivor.

Arshile Gorky (Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, in April 1904), an
Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract
Expressionism, was born in the village of Khorgom, situated on the
shores of Lake Van. In 1910 his father emigrated to America to avoid
the draft, leaving his family behind in the town of Van. Gorky fled
Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother
and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the
aftermath of the Genocide, Gorky’s mother died of starvation in
Yerevan in 1919. Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in
America in 1920.

Gorky’s contributions to American and world art are difficult to
overestimate. His oeuvre is a phenomenal achievement in its own right,
synthesizing Surrealism and the sensuous color and painterliness of
the School of Paris with his own highly personal formal vocabulary.
His paintings and drawings hang in every major American museum
including the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the
Metropolitan and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (which
maintains the Gorky Archive), and in many worldwide, including the
Tate in London. In October 2009 the Philadelphia Museum of Art held a
major Arshile Gorky exhibition.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress