Garo Z. Antreasian

Reflections on Life and Art

Garo Z. Antreasian

• Publisher: UNM Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Art
• Print ISBN:
  9780826355416
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826355423

Garo Z. Antreasian (b. 1922) belongs to the great generation of innovators in mid-twentieth-century American art. While influenced by a variety of European artists in his early years, it was his involvement with Tamarind Lithography Workshop starting in 1960 that transformed his work. As Tamarind’s founding technical director, he revolutionized the medium of lithography. He discovered how to manipulate the spontaneous possibilities of lithography in the manner of the Abstract Expressionist painters. In addition to reflecting on his work, he writes movingly about his Armenian heritage and its importance in his art, his teaching, and his love affair with all sorts of artistic media. Illustrating his drawings, paintings, and prints, this book reveals Antreasian as a major American artist.

This book was made possible in part by generous contributions from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation and Gerald Peters Gallery.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Garo Z. Antreasian: An American Regenerator
• My Armenian Family Background
• My Pre–Grade School Years, 1922–1928
• Boyhood Play and Competitive Pastimes
• My Grade School Years: Awakening to Art, 1928–1936
• My High School Years at Arsenal Tech, 1936–1940
• The Herron School of Art, Pre-War Years, 1940–1941
• A Second Year at Herron, under a Cloud of War, 1942
• The War Years: A Coast Guard Artist in the Pacific, 1942–1945
• The Postwar Years: Marriage, Return to School, and Study in New York, 1946–1949
• Jeanne: Her Life and Her Family, 1921–2010
• Beginning Professional Life in the 1950s: Course Development and Artistic Advances
• The Lure of Lithography
• Prologue to the Tamarind Epoch: A Chance to Revitalize Lithography in America
• The Tamarind Epoch, Part One: The Tamarind Lithography Workshop Opens, 1960–1961
• The Tamarind Epoch, Part Two: Return to Indianapolis, 1961–1964
• The Tamarind Epoch, Part Three: Continuation of the Los Angeles Workshop, 1964–1970
• My Early Years at the University of New Mexico, 1964–1970
• The 1970s: Turbulent Times and the Transfer of Tamarind to UNM
• The 1980s: Art Department Politics and a Journey of Disappointment and Discovery
• The Pursuit of Art: An Overview of My Artwork, 1970s–1990s
• Confronting the Millennium
• The Enduring Ties
• Plates
• Biography, Exhibitions, and Publications
• References
• Checklist
• Index
• Copyright