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From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

By (author) Matthew Spender

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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.

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Publisher | University of California Press
Published date | 23 Mar 2001
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 440
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 771g
ISBN | 978-0-5202-2548-0
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BISAC | art / history / modern (late 19th century to 1945)

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