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Jackson Pollock (Paperback)
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Jackson Pollock (Paperback)
Series: Icons of America
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Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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A compelling look at Jackson Pollock's vibrant, quintessentially
American art and the turbulent life that gave rise to it Jackson
Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his
famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the
character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar
Named Desire-the role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando,
Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950s America, and the
brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist
contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious
paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash,
Pollock's hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has
become an enduring symbol of the tormented artist-our American van
Gogh. In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines
Pollock's itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his
encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and
his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that,
ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his
presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton
also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his
work and that continue to do so. Pollock's paintings captured the
sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American
experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story
and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style.
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