| Description |
934 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations(some color), portraits ; 25cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Demons -- Part One: The West -- 1. Strong-minded women -- 2. Sensitive men -- 3. Stella's boys -- 4. Sensitive to an unnatural degree -- 5. An ordinary family -- 6. Abandoned -- 7. Lost in the desert -- 8.Jack and Sande -- 9. Light on the path -- 10. A rotten rebel -- Part Two: New York -- 11. The best painter in the family -- 12. Benton -- 13. Jack Sass -- 14. The old love -- 15. Into the past -- 16. Out of the void -- 17. The daring young man on the flying trapeze -- 18. A great hope for American painting -- 19. An antidote to regionalism -- 21. Retreat -- 22. Archetypes and alchemy -- 23. Intimations of immortality -- 24. The ways of genius -- 25. Lena Krassner -- 26. Legends -- 27. A wellspring of inspiration -- 28. Exciting as all hell -- 29. Behind the veil -- 30. Fruits and nuts -- 31. Escape --Part Three: The Springs -- 32. Starting over -- 33. Memories arrested in space -- 34. A perfect match -- 35. Celebrity -- 36. Breaking the ice -- 37. Recollections of early childhood -- 39. The unraveling -- 40. Miracle cures -- 41. Against the world -- 42, Abandoned -- 43. The last act -- 44. Escape velocity -- Epilogue: Glacial erratic |
| Summary |
Attempts to reveal the life behind the paintings, from New York during the Depression to his last years with Lee Krasner. This biography tells of Pollock's disjointed childhood, and of sibling rivalry, sexual ambiguity and the artistic frustration out of which the man and the artist developed |
| Analysis |
American paintings Pollock, Jackson |
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American paintings Pollock, Jackson Biographies |
| Notes |
American paintings. Pollock, Jackson (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Subject |
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956.
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Art, American -- 20th century.
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Artists -- United States.
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Painters -- United States -- Biography.
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Painters -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Smith, Gregory White.
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| ISBN |
0712638660 |
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