
Jackson Pollock
Energy Made Visible
B. Friedman(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 22. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-306-80664-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his relationship to his family an artist who worked hard through years of poverty to achieve his controversial painting technique the first American painter to gain an international reputation for himself and for what has been variously called Action Painting or Abstract Expressionism and a man who struggled with alcohol and the tension between gentleness and violence.Newly illustrated with seminal Pollock paintings, this book takes the reader inside the art world of New York during the'40s and'50s, when Action Painting first emerged. Friedman reveals what it meant to Pollock to experience the invasion of his studio and of the very act of painting by the external pressures of shows, reviews, films, dealers, critics, hostile publicity and how, despite it all, Pollock created many of the most graceful and powerful paintings ever made in America.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80664-3 (9780306806643)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Novelist, biographer, playwright, and art critic, B. H. Friedman has written monographs on the artists Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, and Robert Goodnough, among others. Whispers, one of his six novels, was recommended for a National Book Award.
Content
* Introduction * Growing Up in the West: 1912-1929 * American Scene, New York Scene, Personal Scene: 1930-1941 * Surrealists Come to New York: 1941-1946 * Roots in East Hampton: 1946-1947 * The Club: An Interchapter: 1948-1962 * Fame: 1948-1949 * The Biggest Year: 1950 * Black and White: 1951 * The Action Painter: 1952 * The Final Years: 1953-1956 * Post-mortem: 1956-