Jackson Pollock : Works, Writings, Interviews

Pollock, Jackson. Jachec, Nancy

ISBN 10: 8434312581 / ISBN 13: 9788434312586

Edité par Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2011

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23 x 30cm 158pp very good hardback in dust jacket containing texts by Pollock and interviews with the artist together with colour reproductions of his work. Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, because Pollock covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Jackson Pollock : Works, Writings, Interviews
• Éditeur: Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 8434312581
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788434312586
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

This is an engaging and illuminating in-depth study and profile of Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement and the most influential American painter of the twentieth century. Although he died at the early age of just 44, he left an unsurpassed body of work. Throughout his life, Pollock wrote very little about his own art or that of others. Nevertheless, in the few writings we do have, and in a few unpublished, undated notes - all of which are gathered together in this volume - the themes are remarkably similar. After acknowledging his initial debt to the Native American sand painters, who gave him the idea for putting the canvas on the floor and working it 'in the round', Pollock routinely referred to his interest in the unconscious as the source of modern art, as it enabled the direct expression of an 'inner world', of individual feeling and experience of the modern age.

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Jackson Pollock (19121956) was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement and the most influential American painter of the twentieth century. Although he died at the early age of just 44, he left an unsurpassed body of work. Throughout his life, Pollock wrote very little about his own art or that of others. Nevertheless, in the few writings we do have, and in a few unpublished, undated notes all of which are gathered together in this volume the themes are remarkably similar. After acknowledging his initial debt to the Native American sand painters, who gave him the idea for putting the canvas on the floor and working it in the round, Pollock routinely referred to his interest in the unconscious as the source of modern art, as it enabled the direct expression of an inner world, of individual feeling and experience of the modern age.