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Masculinity and art
In TOM AND JACK, Henry Adams, one of the creative contributors to the documentaryKen Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton, takes a close look at the influence of Thomas Hart Benton on perhaps the greatest American artist of the twentieth century, Jackson Pollock. In this rich and insightful dual portrait, Adams first must rehabilitate Benton's reputation as a prolific, dynamic, and socially progressive realist who rose to fame as a WPA mural painter. Adams looks at Benton's expatriate experiences in Paris, the influence of the now forgotten school of Synchromism on his sense of dynamism, and examines Benton's eventual decline (dismissal really) in the eyes of fellow artists and east coast intellectuals. As a teacher at the Art Students League in New York, Benton enjoyed being an iconoclastic influence on his mostly male students. Pollock and Pollock's brothers, also artists, were part of this group. Although Benton and Pollock were quite different in many ways (Benton was quite learned and well read while Pollock was inarticulate, if not exactly illiterate), they were both highly driven artists who never really felt themselves to be artworld insiders. Adams is at his best when analysing the men's artwork, but he is equally comfortable exploring the psychology of their relationship. Since Pollock spent a good deal of time in psychotherapy, Adams's marshalling of Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytical theories as practiced in mid-century America is not out of place, and his presentation of Pollock's relatiohip with Benton and Benton's wife Rita as classically Oedipal is convincing.

In the first part of the book, Adams reveals the abstraction within Benton's realistic paintings; in the second part, he exposes the figurative and orderly elements hidden in Pollock's masterpieces. "It's telling," Adams writes, "that Pollock considered Einstein and Freud the two most important figures of modern times: one delved into the structure of the universe, the other into the structure of the unconscious. The power of Pollock's great drip paintings is that they seem to explore both these mysterious realms" (p. 324).

The book contains 16 pages of color reproductions, but I found it helpful to also consult Ellen Landau's Jackson Pollock, with its exquisite color plates of all of Pollock's major works. (I couldn't find anything comparable for Benton.) TOM and JACK also helped me to better understand Ed Harris's well-made but often elliptical film Pollock. Adams packs a lot into his 400-page dual biography. Its scholarship is well-considered and never bogs down the narrative; TOM AND JACK is a book I'm sure I'll return to again and again as I continue to study and enjoy the work of these two great American artists.

a really interesting book
This is simply a facinating book. It informs without overwhelming the reader on the line of influence from the Synchomists to Benton and on to Pollock in a logical way. The book is well written and captures the personalities of the various characters- and they were really characters- along the way from Willard Wright aka S.S. Van Dyne, Albert Barnes,Benton and his family and Pollock and his.

Excellent look at two great artists!
This book is the best book I've ever read on Jackson Pollock and the only book I've read on Thomas Benton.I've read many books on Jackson Pollock and they all always have about the same things to say, giving only little information into Jackson's relationship with Thomas Benton.This book goes in-depth into their relationship and the relationship between Jackson and Benton's wife, Rita.
I also read some things about Lee Krasner that I had never read before, in regards to her personality, her motives for her relationship to Jackson, and the way their relationship functioned.
This book also takes an in-depth look at Benton's life and his relationship with the art world.
This book is very well-rounded, well-thought out and insightful!I would highly recommend this book for anyone interested in art, in Jackson Pollock and/or in Thomas Benton!

Engrossing and Enlightening
Henry Adams is a most knowledgable anddelightful biographer. I thought I knew a great deal about Thomas Benton and just a little about Jackson Pollock. In this engrossing book, Henry Adams succeeded in not only detailing the lives and works of both artists, but introduced me to the many other fascinating people whose lives were interspliced with theirs. No novelist could possibly create as many extraordinary characters and events as Mr. Adams manages to chronicle in this definitive work.I can't thank him enough for this insightful and delightful look into the lives of "Tom and Jack."

Pollock's#5 has his name hidden in it too!
It is great book with a blockbuster discovery - Jackson Pollock hid his name in the painting 'Mural'.
*NOTE: The most expensive painting of all-time (#5), ALSO has his name hidden in it! Rotate the piece 90 degrees left and you can see "Jackson" in huge yellow/white letters! ... Read more

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Pollock x 14
I don't claim to understand Jackson Pollock's paintings but this book of 14 prints on a paper size that is about 90% A3 size is great value for money.

The earliest prints from the 1930's onwards show the influence of many artists, including Picasso. His later work is apparently abstract and surreal at first viewing. However with repeated viewings you do start to see things in the paintings that perhaps were intended, or perhaps not.

The prints are:
The Moon-Woman
Male and female
The Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle
Composition with Pouring II
Gothic
Night Mist
Croaking Movement
Full fathom Five
Untitled (1948/49)
Number 15
Untitled (1949)
Untitled (1949)
Lavender Mist: Number 1
Convergence: Number 10

Each print has details about it on the reverse. The prints are on good quality card and I'm looking forward to turning my living room into a Pollock gallery for a while!

A good portfolio
This portfolio contains many of his major works, and the pictures are high quality and glossy. My only complaint is that the ink is a little too glossy. It includes works from early to late, highlighting the progression of his artistic style. ... Read more

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This dual portrait examines the art and lives of these talented artists and their productive, yet tempestuous relationship.

For more than a decade Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner devoted their lives to each other, serving in turn as muse, critic, companion, lover, friend, and alter ego. Their romance was stormy--their raucous arguments are the stuff of legend--and their talents were prodigious. Filling the pages of this book are examples of the contributions both artists made to the world of modern art. Readers will learn how Pollock and Krasner's artistry evolved and how they influenced each other's success. Recent developments, such as a revealing biopic and the art world's designation of Pollock as the most expensive artist in the world, bring their portrait fully up to date. While the author acknowledges history's sensationalization of their lives, it is the paintings themselves--revolutionary, innovative, and daring--that tell the most compelling story. ... Read more

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A portrait of the Manhattan art world from 57th Street to Soho follows the story of post-war American art from the late 1940s to the boom of the 1980s while considering the impact of works by Jackson Pollock and his contemporaries.Amazon.com Review
Jackson Pollock's paintings capture the essence of movementand challenge typical notions of representation.The Fate of aGesture argues that Pollock's work overshadowed and directed thecourse of postwar American Painting. Not to be confused with a surveyof this era in art history, Ratcliff deals specifically with theboundless and infinite quality of the influential gesture as a symbolof America itself. Avoiding a common aggrandizement of the artist,Ratcliff's thought-provoking text allows readers to drawconclusions of their own. ... Read more

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Very insightful book
If you have any interest in Abstract Expressionism and New York school of painting, pick up this highly readable and well written book. The book traces the origins ofAmerican modern art to the expressive gestures of Jackson Pollack in his drip paintings.In some ways this gesture is replicated in the book, as chapters seem to jump/ mergefrom one subject or painter to another without reason, yet, in fact, is building up a glorious picture of the New York artists world at a particular point of time. Highly recommended.

Please...
Give me a break. This mish-mash of secondhand information is little more than easily readable. With little regard to chronology, Ratcliff separates the various artistic trends of postwar America using representative artists. All of the stories in this book have been told before, and better, by the artists and critics themselves. This kind of 'art journalism' (not unlike Calvin Tomkins' work) is informative, to be sure, but in quite a superficial and unsatisfying way. I suggest reading Irving Sandler's 'American art of the 1960s' for something as informative and enjoyable but with some opinions and insight.

Follows post-world war two american art after Jackson Polloc
Jackson Pollock is seen as the greatest American artist ever, because of his poured paintings of the late 40's and early 50's. Dying in a drunken car crash in 1956, he left behind a legacy of American artists who weren't driven by European art tastes. The Abstract Expressionist movement, large canvases, and Pop Art are all traced back to Pollock.

Also includes chapters about Rauschenberg, Johns, de Koonig, and Warhol, among others ... Read more

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"On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally 'in' the painting." -- Jackson Pollock, 1947

Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) was the commanding figure of American Abstract Expressionism. By the mid-1940s, he was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the "drip and splash" style for which he is best known emerged rather abruptly in 1947. This manner of Action Painting had in common with Surrealist theories of automatism that artists and critics alike supposed it to -result in a direct expression or revelation of the unconscious moods of the artist. Advanced critics strongly supported Pollock, but he was also subject to much abuse and sarcasm; in 1956, Time magazine called him "Jack the Dripper." By the 1960s, however, he was generally recognized as the most important figure in this century's most important movement in American painting. His unhappy personal life and his premature death in a car crash contributed to his legendary status.

This catalogue book was first published on the occasion of a noted exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, Germany. It presents important paintings as well as graphic works from the New York Museum of Modern Art and from several European collections, for example, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Volkmar Essers is curator at the museum Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf. He specializes in and has published on Abstract Expressionism.

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Designed to help students and interested general readers to interpret the abstract expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock, this survey of Pollock's life and art provides insight into the origins and meanings of individual works and analyzes the influences upon Pollock. Also included are discussions of the many issues raised by Pollock's work above and beyond his intentions, and how they intersected with the work of his contemporaries as well as other intellectual currents of the time. ... Read more

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An intimate and revealing portrait.--George Plimpton ... Read more

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When the Narcissist Codependant met the Bipolar Alcoholic...
This book should definitely be used as a fine example of relationship pathology.It has nothing to do with the artistic life of a genius, just about a woman's idea of her importance by association.Reading it is actually nauseating on so many levels; and this dysfunctional relationship claimed an innocent victim at the end.Spare yourself this self-referential piece of trash.

A good book for all the wrong reasons
Although Ruth Klingman is a clumsy writer (ie we silently went into the silent house.), the book was of value based on the time period it explores.
The story takes place in Jackson Pollock's last year, when his life became totally unravelled. He has alienated his friends and colleagues;started an affair with Klingman; his wife seperated from him and he spent most of his time either drunk or otherwise unable to function. If you can get beyond Ruth Klingman's overblown efforts to make this a romance story (which it is not), It tells of Pollock's unnerving behavior in the final few months before his death.
There is significant art world gossip about Ruth Klingman during this time. She is said to have asked for a list of the best painters in New York at the time and when she was told the best was Pollock, was said to lay claim on him immediately. Within a year of Pollocks death she had started an affair with #2 on the list (Willem de Kooning) which lasted on again off again until 1962. I think the only reason she didn't also have an affair with Franz Kline (#3 on the list) was because he died before her final break up with de Kooning. Because of these stories, her claims in the book that she loves Pollock forever and that he is the only person she ever loved is hollow. It seems she wants the reader to think she is both a sympathetic character and more important than she really was. It comes off as pretentious. It would have made her both more believable and more sympathetic if she would have told of what she has done with her life since the accident in 1956 and perhaps included an honest assessment of her life in the afterward.
However,I would recommend this book, not as a sole source for his biography, but to flesh out other biographies on Pollock.

Still trying to cash in after all these years
A poorly written, self-serving book written by a bit player who is still feeding on Pollock 47 years after his drunken, ignominious death.Pathetic.

Traitorous Art Tart's Account of a Falling Star
Ruth Kligman's account of her "love affair" is tacky, self-serving and poorly written.It's a shame that this adultress continues to live off of a "fame" taken at the expense of the suffering of others through the exploitation of a great artist's demise, a "friend's" death, a undeserving wife, etc. etc.

a memoir of jackson pollock?
I saw the motion picture "pollock" and started to take intrest in the life of Jackson Pollock. when I came across this book I got curious and bought it - what can she possibly write about? I was a little amazed: the book was totaly about her! all she wrote about was herself and pollock's great love for her and how he became depended on her completely. she kept going on and on about how he needed love so despretly and how he was never loved before, totally ignoring his wife, Lee Krasner, and the many years she spent with him, standing beside him and helping him become the appreciated artist he is. she described Krasner as a terrifying angry woman that all she did was terrorize Pollock, when she seemed to forget she had her so called love affair with a married man, invading Krasner's house and living there with Pollock while Krasner was in europe, pretending she was married to him.

I dont think this can be considered a memoir of Jackson Pollock. it does speak of the last months of his life, but it gives very little information about him as a person (beside the fact the he could'nt live without Ruth Kligman) and nothing at all about Pollock as an artist. in fact, in that period of time he did not paint at all. ... Read more

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Gabriele Di Matteo's artist's book takes over 70 photographs of Jackson Pollock from a 1982 Paris Musee national d'art moderne catalogue on the artist, and subjects them to a reproduction process that translates them into painted portraits. ... Read more

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Driven genius, misunderstood drunk, the most influential, elusive and provocative artist of the modern world?Jackson Pollock the Musical is a tragi-comic, imaginary musical journey to discover the nature of the greatest American painter of the 20th Century, his death by car crash and his continuation in the Underworld.With eighteen original songs - ranging through traditional spiritual, folk, bebop, swing, music hall, free jazz, concrete and early electronic/experimental audio - Jackson Pollock the Musical is a libretto for a musical based on the life and times of this Abstract Expressionist painter. ... Read more

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In a thousand dazzling images conjured by his immediatefamily and closest friends, Jackson Pollock, the spectacularlyself-destructive and gifted American painter, comes to life in thisfascinating oral biography assembled and written by his friend andEast Hampton neighbor, Jeffrey Potter.The dramatic narrative ofPollock's violent death, told by those who were on the scene, fromfarmers and policemen to coroners and lovers, is gripping in itsimmediacy.To a Violent Grave reveals a man living a life thatmirrored his art.Jackson Pollock--powerful, colorful, contradictory,brilliant--was an explosion that rocked and changed forever all hetouched. ... Read more

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MOVE OVER TOLSTOY!
Amazing book! Wonderful writer!The only book ever written with a honest and intimate account of Jackson Pollock's life. Jeffrey Potter displays yet again his mastery of talents to create a unique work of literature.I look forward to reading more of his writings.

Three & a half stars... a bit too brief
It could be argued that this format (what people who knew Pollack say about him later) is the laziest form of biography.But it is quite interesting to read exactly what tales his friends and colleagues can tell us.It was light reading, lacking the kind of sequential factual details a meticulous biographer strings together.

Title implies sensationalism rather than a sober study of the man's life; indeed, the book leans a bit too much on gossipy bits of scandal, drinking, violence, and angst.Does nothing to dispel all the galmourization and star attraction of Pollack, which is unfortunate.The book's lack of art criticism does a disservice to the artist, and places Pollack under an unfortunate spotlight of personality.Reader can leave this book erroneously imagining Pollack was a fake, or at least pathetic.

Worth reading to augment exhaustive research, but not the full story...

Three & a half stars... a bit too brief
It could be argued that this format (what people who knew Pollack say about him later) is the laziest form of biography.But it is quite interesting to read exactly what tales his friends and colleagues can tell us.It was light reading, lacking the kind of sequential factual details a meticulous biographer strings together.

Title implies sensationalism rather than a sober study of the man's life; indeed, the book leans a bit too much on gossipy bits of scandal, drinking, violence, and angst.Does nothing to dispel all the galmourization and star attraction of Pollack, which is unfortunate.The book's lack of art criticism does a disservice to the artist, and places Pollack under an unfortunate spotlight of personality.Reader can leave this book erroneously imagining Pollack was a fake, or at least pathetic.

Worth reading to augment exhaustive research, but not the full story. There is a better biography available.

I wondered when the biography would begin.
I felt that the format of this biography took too much away from thecontent. I will never buy another " oral biography ". The bookwill make a nice coaster or bathroom reader.

The true Pollock
I bought this book for researching a college term paper and ended up being enthralled with it. I never realized all these things about this great painter. From the mouths of his family and friends, one feels as if he/sheis peering into the true life of Jackson Pollock If you want to understandhis art, this is the place to start. ... Read more

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A bewitching collection of short fiction—haunting and hypnotic meditations on art, movies, literature, and life

A circus elephant named Topsy was executed at Coney Island in the year 1900 for killing a man. That’s true. So is the life of Saartjie (Sar-key) Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, who was herself a circus act in the first half of the nineteenth century. What is myth is the Indian god Ganesha, whose head was lopped off by his father, Shiva, and replaced—with an elephant’s head—by his disconsolate mother, Parvati. In John Haskell’s expert hands, these three curious strands are ingeniously woven together in one story called “Elephant Feelings.”

And so it goes with the rest of these dreamy meditations on the lives of artists, actors, writers, and musicians who are at once painfully human and larger than life. In “Dream of a Clean Slate,” Jackson Pollock the man struggles with the separation he feels from Jackson Pollock the artist; in “The Judgment of Psycho,” Haskell probes the sexual dynamic of Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho, and then delves into a different relationship, the one between Hector and Paris in the Iliad; Orson Welles presides over the long story “Crimes at Midnight,” a tense evocation of desire and its consequences. Haskell has written a series of myths for modern times, stories about the ways in which we are distant from ourselves and about the way art can sometimes help us imagine other worlds and other possibilities. It is an astonishing debut.
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Best Book I've Read This Year
Believe the review on this page that says the book is astonishing. I've never read anything quite like it. Why would anyone who read it call it "senseless" - ? That reader really missed the mark. This is fascinating writing - the author is a master at seeing similarities between things which, on the surface, are dissimilar. From high culture to low, Haskell brings it all together into one frame. I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone interested in ficition that isn't dead in the water. If you're tired of formulaic writing, this one will wake you up. This is infused with motion and risk. A lovely book, my favorite of many read in the last year.

Vagaries in the search of reality
John Haskell is a writer new to the reading (though not the performing) world and his voice is one that stirs interest, primarily because it is unique. He tells these nine 'short stories' - they seem more like extended meditations or themes and fugues - in a manner that combines known public figures (a particular penchant for old movie stars and old movies) with imaginary cast members to explore the thin line of reality vs fiction. He makes bizarre choices in combining such people as Orson Welles, Joseph Coton, Falstaff, Prince Hal and Janet Leigh to ponder self perception:"...once we think we know who we are, to change who we are means giving up what we love, even if we hate it." The haiku poet Basho is intertwined with thoughts about John Keats;Keats falls short of relating to Fanny Brawne until he faces his moment of death; Basho confesses he "...wants to find beauty and harmony, but something is always distracting him - people usually - pulling him off the road."Mercedes McCambridge, the devil voice of Linda Blair in "The Exorcist", struggles with alcoholism, Joan of Arc is recallled historically and through the various guises of the actress who portrayed her in the film.Sound confusing?Well it is, and sometimes the obtuseness of Haskell's technique borders on not the absurd, but the senseless.I think we're seeing the early work of a mind that is rich in fluid imagination. I feel as though this author has a lot to say but is hiding behind the likes of Jackson Pollock and Joan of Arc and Ganesha for fear of not being noticed.I don't think he needs this gimmick and I eagerly await his next novel. He WILL be noticed on his own rights.

An author to watch
Publisher's Weekly (editorial reviews) describes the nature of this book far better than the previous customer review. Haskell is ambitious, knows this work is perversely anomalous, but isn't motivated by difference for its own sake.He's winnowed down what really interests him in fiction and is relying on myth, news accounts, and film scenarios the way a composer might riff on familiar melodies.

None of these pieces (though in a sense the complete book has an inviolate structure of its own) was transcendent, however.I was interested but not rapt.No sirens or fireworks went off.But Haskell is nonetheless an artist in the best sense;he is after something beyond the familiar confines of fiction, is following his own muse without apology or a need to ingratiate himself with the reader, and I have a strong hunch that his best efforts lie ahead.He is original, focused, and definitely a writer to watch.

Terrific premise with very good execution.
John Haskell's first short story collection takes key figures from history, identifies them at defining moments in their existence and builds a story around them to explain their significance. It's an interesting take on the short story, which some say is a dying art, and Haskell does good work, for the most part.

His premise, though, turns the "stories" into more analysis of moment than a narrative. Occasionally, the stories become bogged down and feel like essays, though this is itself is intellectually stimulating.

He gives the reader a look inside Jackson Pollock's head in one piece, granting you the opportunity to follow Pollock's reasoning.

In "Elephant Feelings," the best of the stories, Haskell takes three figures from culture and history and draws parallels between them. (It feels like a shorter version of "The Hours," even, except with mythical characters and an elephant playing the Virginia Woolf part.) But not enough is done with the premise, in my opinion.

As with all the stories, I felt like the characters and moments were well-drawn. But, to justify going into all this detail, I wished it'd featured less analysis and more plot. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 693 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Artists From Wyoming, Monuments and Memorials in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock, Ames Monument, Robert Russin, Peter Forakis, Tom Loepp, Floyd Shaman, Bertram C. Granger. Excerpt: Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related, single-car crash. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 2000, Pollock was the subject of an Academy Awardwinning film Pollock directed by and starring Ed Harris. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five brothers. His parents, Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, grew up in Tingley, Iowa. His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of one another. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; the former, Irish; the latter, Scotch-Irish. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government. Jackson grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. Expelled from one high school in 1928, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, from which he was also expelled. During his early l... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16307 ... Read more

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Jackson Pollock, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bulletin Vol. Xxiv, No. 2 1956-57 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bulletin [EXHIBITION SERIES], 24)ASIN: B00183AI4GA MUSEUM EXHIBITION OF PRINTS AND WORKS BY THE ARTIST.Title: Jackson Pollock, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bulletin Vol. Xxiv, No. 2 1956-57Binding: PaperbackPublication date: 1957 ... Read more

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If the contorted imagery and wild brushwork of French Expressionist Chaim Soutine became key features of French modern art in the 1920s, they also exerted a lasting and meaningful influence on many major post-war painters. Willem de Kooning considered Soutine his favorite painter, and Jackson Pollock's late work "Scent" was a homage to the Lithuanian-born painter. Jean Dubuffet's concept of art was affected by Soutine's seemingly untaught and direct manner, and Francis Bacon was dramatically affected by his ability to freely capture the essence of the personage portrayed. Through key paintings, especially those created in the decade after 1918, The Impact of Chaim Soutine reveals not only the seminal power and reverberant originality of this 20th-century artist, but also the depth and expressiveness that his influence added to the art of four of the most important American, French, and British artists. ... Read more

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An extraordinary and unusual art book
The Impact Of Chaim Soutine is an extraordinary and unusual art book tracing how the works of Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) affected the artistic sensibilities of avant garde artists de Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, and Bacon. Filled cover to cover with full-color reproductions of bold painting, each image is paired with comments directly attributed to Soutine and the great artists he affected. Enhanced with artist and studio photographs, a chronology and biography, and a roster of Soutine Paintings in the Galerie Gmurzynska Exhibition, The Impact Of Chaim Soutine is a truly stunning and informative look at the influence and legacy of a notable man's abstract art and a welcome addition to personal and academic Art History collections. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Decades: Primary Sources, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 898 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues. Entries representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author and further resources. American Decades Primary Sources includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are first hand accounts that include oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoonsand recipes. ... Read more

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Jackson Pollock: Psychoanaytic Drawings
Any one who has the faintest idea of who Jackson Pollock was in the art world should not pass up the oppertunity to read this book.The authors explore the scaffolding of the artists ideas by opening his sketch books to viewers and revealing his bare-bone sketching style. I have yet to obtain a copy of the book, but have browsed through it's contents on numerous occaisons, each time seeing something different in every piece.An excellent book to conger upinspiration for all aspiring artist. ... Read more