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From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky.(Review)
From: New Criterion
Date: 19991001
Author:Thaw, E. V.
Matthew Spender From a High Place: A life of Arshile Gorky. Alfred A. Knopf, 417 pages, $35
Arshile Gorky is just as troublesome a personality today, some fifty-one years after his suicide, as he was to his "loves" his friends, and his enemies while he lived. His name was not Arshile Gorky, and he was not, as he claimed, a nephew of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. He was not even Russian at all, but an Armenian who fled as a teenager from the terrible genocide by the Turks in 1915.
His Armenian nationality and nostalgia for his village, Khorkam, became the leitmotif of ...
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