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Arshile Gorky - The Plow and the Song: A Life in Letters and Documents
Hauser & Wirth 2018 ISBN 9783906915081 Acqn 28707
Hb 18x24cm 584pp col ills £40

A remarkable addition to the ever-evolving scholarship on Arshile Gorky, 'The Plow and the Song:
A Life in Letters and Documents' chronicles the artist's life and work through his personal letters,
correspondence between friends and family, and key contemporary reviews. The publication
builds upon Matthew Spender's 2009 book 'Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof' and features never-
before-published materials, including diary entries from Gorky's late wife, as well as new letters
and archival images.

Now celebrated as a seminal figure in the shift to abstraction that transformed twentieth-century
American art, Gorky struggled to gain critical recognition throughout his life. His evolution as an
artist was marked by constant cycles of radical reinvention as well as periods of profound
personal tragedies. Designed by Johannes Breyer with Robert Janes, 'The Plow and the Song'
integrates a wide array of artwork as well as archival materials, offering a comprehensive and
dynamic portrait of the artist.

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Dubuffet and the City - People, Place, and Urban Space

Hauser & Wirth 2018 ISBN 9783906915111 Acqn 28706
Pb 17x24cm 288pp col ills £30

'Dubuffet and the City: People, Place and Urban Space,' written and edited by renowned scholar
Dr. Sophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam), is the first in-depth study to address the work of
Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1984) in relation to the theme of the city. The book examines how the city
plays a role in the formation and unfolding of Dubuffet's practice and imagination as a material, a
source, and a vehicle for ideas. It analyses works in which the artist depicts city dwellers, sites
and urban spaces, and discusses his architectural projects from the 1960s and 1970s against the
background of heated debates in the field of urbanism. The book accompanies and extends the
exhibition 'Jean Dubuffet and the City' at Hauser & Wirth Zurich (10 June - 1 September 2018).
Along with full colour reproductions of art works the book reproduces little-known archival material
from the archives of the Fondation Dubuffet. It also includes several texts by Dubuffet that are
translated here in English for the first time.

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