This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of a post-war masterpiece and its restoration. In many ways, Mural, Jackson Pollock's (1912-1956) first large-scale painting represents the birth of his legend. The controversial artist's creation of this painting has been recounted in dozen[...]
This book features 11 paintings by Pollock selected from MoMA's substantial collection of his work. His groundbreaking drip paintings of the late 1940s and '50s are here, along with early and late works. A lively essay by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum, ac[...]
Offers a collection of short fiction that navigates art, movies, literature and life, often exploring real-life figures in fictional form.[...]
This large-format overview of the work of John Heartfield draws on the superlative collections of the Academie der Kunst, Berlin, and the David King collection at Tate Modern. Born in Berlin in 1891, Heartfield, along with George Grosz, is widely considered to have invented photomontage, a technique[...]
Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) was one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the 20th century. This fully illustrated book accompanies the first exhibition in over three decades of a crucial phase of his work referred to as the Black Pourings. This controversial body of black enam[...]
This epic biographical poem chronicles the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter Jackson Pollock. The magnificent narrative chronicles Pollock's reckless, adventurous, and often desperate life, from his beginnings in the American northwest through his pioneering of a revolutionary n[...]
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 - but their talents were prodigious. This book is packed with[...]
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 unsur[...]
What Michelangelo and Pollock shared was the inspired frenzy they both transmitted as they worked, a sort of agonistic trance that rendered them extraneous to the outer world. Exhibiting Jackson Pollock in Florence and comparing him to Michelangelo is the challenge that the authors and curators of t[...]