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Jackson Pollock Taschen Hardcover Book - Leonhard Emmerling

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About Jackson Pollock Taschen Hardcover Book - Leonhard Emmerling

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Pollock’s most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more immediate, vivid, and physical. To evade the viewer’s search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and identified each work with a neutral number only. Notoriously reclusive and volatile, struggling with alcoholism, married to fellow Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, and killed in a car crash aged just 44, Pollock is as much a compelling celebrity icon as an artistic pioneer. This Jackson Pollock Taschen Hardcover Book explores both his work and his fame to shed light on masterpieces of the modernist story, and the making of a cultural icon.

Technical Specifications

  • Dimensions: 10.5″ x 8.5″ x 1″ inches
  • Weight: 2 lbs
  • Materials: Hardcover | 96 Pages
  • Author: Leonhard Emmerling
  • Publisher: TASCHEN (April 1, 2019)
  • Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
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The artistic experimentation of Jackson Pollock’s paintings reflects the strong influence from the Surrealist psychic automatism present in the works of artists like Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Pollock’s Action Painting also raised from a 1939 Picasso exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. While some heavily criticized his works, other renowned critics like Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg praised Pollock. As an example, Rosenberg stated: “many of the painters were ‘Marxists’; they had been trying to paint Society. Others had been trying to paint art – it amounts to the same thing. The big moment came when it was decided to paint…just to PAINT. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value – political, aesthetic, moral.

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