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Jackson Pollock
by Ellen G. Landau.Published 2010.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0810984962
ISBN-13: 978-0810984967
Description:
ISBN-13: 978-0810984967
How did Jackson Pollock become a
cult figure for the Beat Generation? And what caused his reputation to continue
to soar? This compelling and original Abrams classic, now back in print,
locates the artist in the continuum of his times, recreating the social and
cultural milieu of New York in the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive knowledge of
Pollock’s habits (much of it gained through interviews), his reading, his
conversation, and the exhibitions he visited, the author retraces many of the
far-flung sources of Pollock’s work. A wealth of comparative photographs that
illustrate paintings by artists Pollock admired further explains the work of
this complex, tragic, and immeasurably influential figure. Pollock’s big, bold
canvases are reproduced in five colors to convey the brilliance of his network
of tones, his aluminum paint, and his sparkling collage materials. Six
gatefolds show his vast horizontal works without distortion and a chronology
provides a summary of the major events of Pollock’s life.
