
From a High Place
A Life of Arshile Gorky
Matthew Spender(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 23. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-520-22548-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
106 b-w photographs, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-22548-0 (9780520225480)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Matthew Spender is a writer and sculptor. He married the eldest daughter of Arshile Gorky in 1968. His previous book, Within Tuscany, is a memoir about the Sienese countryside where they live.
Content
Illustrations
Gorky's Family Tree
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Khorkom
2 Van City
3 Yerevan
4 Watertown
5 Sullivan Street
6 Union Square
7 The Public Works of Art Project
8 The Federal Art Project
9 The Newark Airport Murals
10 Old and New Paths
11 The World's Fair
12 War
13 San Francisco
14 A Change of Direction
15 Crooked Run
16 Surrealists in New York
17 A Second Summer at Crooked Run
18 Roxbury
19 Two Disasters
20 Union Square
21 Sherman
22 Last Six Weeks
Afterword
Notes
Index
Gorky's Family Tree
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Khorkom
2 Van City
3 Yerevan
4 Watertown
5 Sullivan Street
6 Union Square
7 The Public Works of Art Project
8 The Federal Art Project
9 The Newark Airport Murals
10 Old and New Paths
11 The World's Fair
12 War
13 San Francisco
14 A Change of Direction
15 Crooked Run
16 Surrealists in New York
17 A Second Summer at Crooked Run
18 Roxbury
19 Two Disasters
20 Union Square
21 Sherman
22 Last Six Weeks
Afterword
Notes
Index