From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520225480)

An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood-his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915-he changed his name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was a very influential figure among the latter. His work was an inspiration to Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, among others. Matthew Spender illuminates this world as he tells the story of Gorky's life and career.

Author: Matthew Spender
ISBN-10: 0520225481
ISBN-13: 9780520225480
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2001
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.28w x 1.14d