Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky by Nouritza Matossian

BLACK ANGEL
A Life of Arshile Gorky

Nouritza Matossian


OVERLOOK PRESS, NY 2000
Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.
212-965-8407

Chatto & Windus, Random House , UK

PIMLICO PRESS Paperback 2001
Press Contact: Ruth Warburton
0207 840 8592
rwarburton@randomhouse.co.uk

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First New York run off-Broadway for one week at:
Theatre Row
410 W. 42nd St

Performances:
Tuesday, December 2 to Sunday, December 7 at 8 p.m

Box Office
Telecharge 1-800-545-2559 / 212-239-6200
Tickets also online at www.telecharge.com
$75 Special Opening Night Event tues,
$25 wed & thurs,
$30 fri, sat, sun.
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Press Release: Whitney Black Angel off-Broadway Show


"Black Angel is by Nouritza Matossian who was impelled by her identification
with Gorky as a fellow-Armenian. Matossian is ardent and often moving."

New Yorker, September 2003

Listen to an Armenian Interview of Nouritza talking about Ararat & Black Angel:
A Life of Arshile Gorky

http://www.vem.au



French Press Release for Ararat

The book which inspired Atom Egoyan's controversial new movie Ararat

"This extraordinary book passionately lays bare the tortured soul of one of this century's great artists, Arshile Gorky. Tracing his childhood in Van through to his flight to America, Nouritza Matossian vividly explores the sources of Gorky's unique genius. This stunning piece of work is emotionally charged, and achieves a rare alchemy of scholarship, personal reflection and historical testimony.

Arshile Gorky appears in my new film Ararat inspired by Nouritza Matossian's book."

The Independent Newspaper 20th May
Ararat ; When History Still Hurts by Nouritza Matossian


Cannes Film Festival Official Selection 20th May 2002 World Premiere



Atom Egoyan, Charles Aznavour, Arsinee Khanjian, Simon
Abkarian, Nouritza Matossian and cast

Nouritza Matossian at Premiere


Egoyan, Matossian and Abkarian (Arshile Gorky)

Listen to Nouritza Reading from 'Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky'

Read Excerpts From the Book


'A major biography . . . a love affair between biographer and subject revealed.' -The Times.


Black Angel, The Double Life of Arshile Gorky dramatises the story of the heroic Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky (1904-48). In a series of four monologues the author/actress adopts the point of view of the women central to his life: his mother, sister, lover and wife. The performance connects Gorky to his Armenian origins, and concerns the ways in which cultural traditions, politics and personal history are intertwined. It is accompanied by images and music.

 


The Book

The Show

The Film

UK press reviews

 
 

Articles by Nouritza Matossian


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