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• catalog abstract ""Arshile Gorky, one of the most intriguing figures in modern art, was at the center of the New York art world in the twenties, thirties, and forties. Yet he was never fully recognized as an important painter in his lifetime, and it was only after his death that his reputation soared. In this deeply felt and penetrating biography, Matthew Spender - himself a sculptor and the husband of Gorky's elder daughter - writes with sympathy and perception, and he gets to the heart of his elusive subject."--BOOK JACKET. "Born in Khorkom, a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky grew up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood: the scars of the 1896 Turkish massacres of his people; then the mass slaughter of 1915 from which his own family fled; the desertion of his father; the dominance of his headstrong and loving mother, who died of starvation after they found shelter in the Caucasus."--BOOK JACKET. "Making his way to the United States, the young Gorky determined against all odds to become a painter. He buried his past by assuming a new name and identity, and brazened his way into the art world. At once charming and peremptory, seemingly an extrovert but secretive at heart, he could both dazzle and alienate his art students (Rothko was one of his earliest), his fellow painters, and his young loves, as well his potential dealers and patrons. His last years, dogged by tragedy and illness, threatened even the haven of his marriage and family, until finally, in 1948, he took his own life."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Life of Arshile Gorky".
• catalog contributor b11232147.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""Arshile Gorky, one of the most intriguing figures in modern art, was at the center of the New York art world in the twenties, thirties, and forties. Yet he was never fully recognized as an important painter in his lifetime, and it was only after his death that his reputation soared. In this deeply felt and penetrating biography, Matthew Spender - himself a sculptor and the husband of Gorky's elder daughter - writes with sympathy and perception, and he gets to the heart of his elusive subject."--BOOK JACKET. "Born in Khorkom, a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky grew up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood: the scars of the 1896 Turkish massacres of his people; then the mass slaughter of 1915 from which his own family fled; the desertion of his father; the dominance of his headstrong and loving mother, who died of starvation after they found shelter in the Caucasus."--BOOK JACKET. "Making his way to the United States, the young Gorky determined against all odds to become a painter. He buried his past by assuming a new name and identity, and brazened his way into the art world. At once charming and peremptory, seemingly an extrovert but secretive at heart, he could both dazzle and alienate his art students (Rothko was one of his earliest), his fellow painters, and his young loves, as well his potential dealers and patrons. His last years, dogged by tragedy and illness, threatened even the haven of his marriage and family, until finally, in 1948, he took his own life."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Gorky's Family Tree -- Khorkom -- Van City -- Yerevan -- Watertown -- Sullivan Street -- Union Square -- The Public Works of Art Project -- The Federal Art Project -- The Newark Airport Murals -- Old and New Paths -- The World's Fair -- War -- San Francisco -- A Change of Direction -- Crooked Run -- Surrealists in New York -- A Second Summer at Crooked Run -- Roxbury -- Two Disasters -- Union Square -- Sherman -- Last Six Weeks.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-400) and index.".
• catalog extent "xxiii, 417 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "From a high place.".
• catalog identifier "0375403787".
• catalog isFormatOf "From a high place.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
• catalog relation "From a high place.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "759.13 B 21".
• catalog subject "Artists United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948.".
• catalog subject "N6537.G65 S68 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "Gorky's Family Tree -- Khorkom -- Van City -- Yerevan -- Watertown -- Sullivan Street -- Union Square -- The Public Works of Art Project -- The Federal Art Project -- The Newark Airport Murals -- Old and New Paths -- The World's Fair -- War -- San Francisco -- A Change of Direction -- Crooked Run -- Surrealists in New York -- A Second Summer at Crooked Run -- Roxbury -- Two Disasters -- Union Square -- Sherman -- Last Six Weeks.".
• catalog title "From a high place : a life of Arshile Gorky / Matthew Spender.".
• catalog title "Life of Arshile Gorky".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".