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Jackson Pollock
By Ellen G. Landau.
Published by Abrams.
Published 2010.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0810984962
ISBN-13: 978-0810984967
Description:
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.
