Four Essays - Paperback

by Slava Polishchuk (Author), Grigory Starikovsky (Author)

This collection of essays, prepared by two contributors, Slava Polishchuk (an artist) and Grigory Starikovsky (a writer) explores the creative drives of Vincent Van Gogh, Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. This book is an attempt to grasp art as a combination of forces which validate and, coincidentally, obliterate an artist's universe.

Author Biography

Born in Russia, Slava Polishchuk is an artist. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; the Lithuanian State Museum of Art, Vilnius; the Chelsea Art Museum, New York; B'nai B'rith Klutznic National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC; Pace University Gallery, New York; Brooklyn College Gallery, New York. His works are included in public and private collections, such as The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow; the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), Moscow; the Lithuanian State Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania; Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton Dodge Collection, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey; The Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey; the Kolodzei Foundation; Brooklyn College; Pace University; Fox & Fowle Architects (New York). Since 2003, he has been working in collaboration with Asya Dodina. Slava Polishchuk's published books include Time of Happines, Noscow, 1994; The Army Notebook, Moscow, 1995; What Remains (translation by Sibelan Forrester), New York, 2013; Diptych, New York, 2014. He currently lives in New York. He is a Conservator at Special Collections at Brooklyn College. Slava Polishchuk works and teaches at Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute. Grigory Starikovsky (poet, translator, essayist) was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1971, moved to the US in 1992, received doctoral degree in Classics from Columbia University (2004). He teaches Latin at Ramsey High School (NJ). Dr. Starikovsky translates classical and Anglophone poetry into Russian. He translated Pindar's Pythian Odes, Vergil's Eclogues, Propertius' love elegies, and Persius's Satires, and, most recently, Homer's Odyssey 9-12.