From a High Place
Subtitle: A Life of Arshile Gorky
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780520225480
Subjects: Art styles: c First World War to 1960; Biography & Autobiography; 20th century; Childhood Memoir; Biography / Autobiography; New York (State); Biography/Autobiography; Turkey; Gorky, Arshile,; Artists, Architects, Photographers; History - Abstract; Art / General; Biography; 1904-1948; New York; Painters
First sentence: GORKY OFTEN TALKED about his childhood: the beautiful lake on whose banks his village used to stand, its poplar trees like sentinels, the distant mountains whose shoulders supported the sky.