Jackson Pollock by Glenn Lowry


Jackson Pollock
Title : Jackson Pollock
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ISBN : 0870700685
ISBN-10 : 9780870700682
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 336
Publication : Published June 15, 2002

Jackson Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American artist of the 20th century. In his revolutionary paintings of the late 1940s, he dripped paint into complex webs of interlacing lines, rhythmically punctuated by pools of color. With their allover composition, apparent abstraction, and spontaneous but controlled paint handling, these powerful works announced the emergence of Abstract Expressionism. This sumptuously illustrated book offers a fresh overview of his achievement, reinterpreted for a new generation and features a complete visual record of the artist's work, including over 200 color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and prints, enhanced by life-sized details, foldouts, and documentary photographs. An essay by Kirk Varnedoe explores Pollock's life, the mythology that so quickly grew up around him as the prototypical "action painter", and the different critical schools that have tried to lay claim to his legacy. Pepe Karmel offers new insight into Pollock's famous "drip" technique, as revealed by an intensive, computer-assisted study of photographs and films of Pollock at work. This volume was published to accompany the first major survey of the artist's career since 1967, held in 1998 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Jackson Pollock Reviews

  • Stephen Robert Collins

    I love the art of modern 1950s artist Jackson Pollack who proved that when you are pissed as fucking hell your art is ten times better than sober.
    Look at Peter Cook when he was drunk he was very funny but when he was sober he stunk. Oliver Reed was another example.
    I think that Pollack is the art for dreams you can look for hours & no two people will see same thing. This large format paper back book. I played £ 40 at book fair few years ago.
    It has all his great works which you can unfold out into long page. You have load of facts about each piece, along with photos & historical facts about his death. Like most great piss artist his end was no surprise. James Dean was speeding car, Edgar Allan Poe was drugs, Christopher Marlow was murder even Shakespeare died young.
    Aesthetic creation of numbers into art while dripping the same colours of greatness into everlasting memory of mind

  • Ann Otto

    This is one of the best books on art that I've seen and read. I say seen because it has most of his works pictured. Many of them also have a close up of one part of the canvas so you can see the strokes and drops of paint of all types that he used. It's like standing and looking at it in person. I've long been a fan of his late 1940s and early 50s work. If you saw the film Pollock, not much of the biography will be new; but if you are a true art aficionado, you will be interested in the extensive background on the art business around Pollock's works.

  • Matthu Stull

    the power of sobriety....

  • Kllrchrd

    Its a good un ...... a sumpuous book from MOMA. I bought this eleven years ago and it gave me the breadth and depth that i wanted.