Jackson Pollock (The Life and Work of . . .)

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Based on more than 2, interviews with people, Jackson Pollock is the first book to explore the life of a great artist with the psychological depth that marks the best biographies of Cited by:   Ellen G.

Landau`s book is easily still one of the best biographical surveys on Pollock currently available. First published inJackson Pollock book is a pretty comprehensive monograph; it has illustrations, of which are in colour with 6 gatefolds/5(43).

Jackson Pollock. The almost mythic Jackson Pollock--a roughshod, ill-mannered, prodigiously ambitious, aggressive, alcoholic, tormented artist--is alive and unwell in this book.

also go deeply into Pollock's art in eye-opening ways. This book is the catalog for the retrospective of Pollock's art-shattering oeuvre at the Museum of Modern.

This Jackson Pollock bio was tedious. I'd much rather prefer to read the primary documents from which this material was drawn. I can understand its usefulness for art historians and major Jackson Pollock fans, but the book, at least to my liking, was mostly "filler" and very little "killer," as /5.

Jackson Pollock, in full Paul Jackson Pollock, (born JanuCody, Wyoming, U.S.—died AugEast Hampton, New York), American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism, an art movement characterized by the free-associative gestures in paint sometimes referred to as “ action painting.”During his lifetime he received widespread publicity and.

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Ryder and the Mexican muralists, especially toPollock worked on. This book was better than the biography I recently read about Lee Krasner, his wife. I liked Jackson Pollock book one. You get a real sense of the person, Jackson Pollock, complete with all the demons he battled in his short life.

Thanks Lily T for loaning me this book!/5. Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter, and the leading force behind the abstract expressionist movement in the art world. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety.

Jackson Pollock's greatness lies in developing one of the most radical abstract styles in the history of modern art, detaching line from color, redefining the categories of drawing and.

Less gossipy than Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith's Jackson Pollock (LJ 8/89), this book treats Pollock's personal life, creative work, and cultural milieu as discrete elements that produce a gradually developing image, not always in accord with the public's view of Pollock as rebellious cowboy or counterculture loner.

Pollock was the 5/5(1). Art with Mati and Dada is an animated series for kids from five to. eight years old, co-produced by the Italian production company Achtoons and Rai Fiction, the production arm of the Italian. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Jackson Pollock books online.

Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Pollock’s Modernism provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (–), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist’s career – including Mural (), Cathedral (), Number 1A,One: Numand Portrait and a Dream () – Michael.

This is a Read aloud of Action Jackson. A book about Jackson Pollock and the way he works through his paintings. This book is beautifully illustrated and well written. This would be a great. The troubled life of Jackson Pollock, a hero of Abstract Expressionism, is once again haunting his family and friends.

His world, his art and his psyche have been relentlessly explored in. All of this is true, but it’s not the full picture of the artist and his life.

He was also an avid cook, and a lover of good food, which shades in some fresh nuances to his life and work, explains Robyn Lea, the author of a new book about Pollock and his cooking, Dinner with Jackson Pollock. Pollock, Jackson (illustrator).

Squarish softcover (approx. 8 3/8" tall by 9 12" wide) pages. Includes many black and white illustrations, catalogue of the exhibition, Chronology, Bibliography, and Index. Early Life. Paul Jackson Pollock was born on Janu in Cody, Wyoming.

His father, LeRoy Pollock, was a farmer and a government land surveyor, and his mother, Stella May McClure, was a Born:   This book is intended to serve as a general survey of the life and work of Jackson Pollock, the foremost member of the first generation of “Abstract Expressionists,” which came to maturity just after World War II, and the greatest twentieth-century American : Abbeville Publishing Group.

Evelyn Toynton's portrait of Jackson Pollock reveals the artist in complex, colourful detail Christopher Bray Sat 25 Feb EST First published on Sat 25 Feb EST.

Jackson Pollock was an influential artist of the Abstract Exprssionist Movement who radicalized painting with his “drip style” technique that revolutionized art for future generations. He showed the world that canvas did not need to be set upon an easel, but rather spread out in the raw where the artist could become fully immersed in his craft and approach it from all sides and angles.

Jackson Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American artist of the twentieth century. In his revolutionary paintings of the late s, he dripped or poured paint into complex webs of interlacing lines, rhythmically punctuated by pools of color.

With their allover composition, seemingly total abstraction, and gestural but remarkably controlled handling of paint. For more Pollock family recipes, accompanied by photographs and original stories, pick up Dinner With Jackson Pollock: Recipes, Art and Nature by Robyn Lea, $50, Advertisement.Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

is a documentary following Teri Horton, a year-old former long-haul truck driver from California, who purchased a painting from a thrift shop for $5, only later to find out that it may be a Jackson Pollock painting. She had no clue at the time who Jackson Pollock was, hence the name of the film.

According to an interview from the film, Horton purchased Distributed by: Picturehouse.