Jackson Pollock /
"At the beginning, the canvas is white, void; then the cautious start, then the running of the paint from the pot onto the white of the surface ..." Hans Namuth. Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted wit...
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[New York] :
Parkstone International,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- The myth of the artist cowboy; Pre-adolescence and first artistic notions; The Benton Student; Epistolary exchanges with home; First flight; The Origins of his alcoholism; Alcoholism and therapies; The arrival of Abstract Expressionism; Hans Namuth; Lee Krasner; Description of his technique; Review of his influences; A new process; "I am nature"; The arrival of glory; Mural; A new process; The climax of his success; Relapse; Ruth Kligman; The last photo and Pollock's death; BIOGRAPHY; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.