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Pollock Matters (Paperback)
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Pollock Matters (Paperback)
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Legendary abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (1912-56)
is most famous for the frenetic, highly textured works created
through his trademark "drip" technique in which he poured paint
from its can directly onto the canvas. "Pollock Matters" explores,
for the first time, the personal and artistic interrelationship
between the notorious artist and noted Swiss-born photographer and
graphic designer Herbert Matter.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at Boston College's
McMullen Museum of Art, "Pollock Matters "traces a close friendship
that spanned almost two decades, beginning in 1936 when the men's
future wives, painters Lee Krasner and Mercedes Carles, met after
being sent to jail for protesting Works Progress Administration
cutbacks. The friendship continued until Pollock's tragic death in
an automobile accident in the summer of 1956.
Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, including
over 150 illustrations, this book demonstrates a critically
important chain of influence between two creative individuals not
addressed in previous studies of their respective careers. "Pollock
Matters "reveals the crucial role that Herbert Matter's technical
innovations played in helping to stimulate Pollock's radical
artistic conception of "energy made visible." A previously unknown
body of small drip paintings labeled by Matter as "Jackson
experimentals" is presented here along with scientific analysis of
the works. This volume will be essential reading for anyone seeking
an enriched understanding of Jackson Pollock's life and work or the
history of abstract painting.
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