Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Sept. 1-Dec. 9, 2007. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's preface / Nancy Netzer -- Introduction / Claude Cernuschi and Ellen G. Landau -- Action/re-action : the artistic friendship of Herbert Matter and Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau -- Jackson Pollock's vitalism : Herbert Matter and the Vitalist tradition / Jonathan D. Katz -- Cutting Pollock down to size : the boundaries of the poured technique / Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Herczynski -- Abstract expressionism and fractal geometry / Claude Cernuschi, Andrzej Herczynski, and David Martin -- Scientific examination of the paint on nine Matter paintings / Richard Newman and Michele Derrick -- Analyzing Jackson Pollock : scientific methods and the study of the Matter paintings / Nicholas Eastaugh -- What it says on the tin : a preliminary study of the set of paint cans and the floor in the Pollock-Krasner studio / Nicholas Eastaugh and Bhavini Gorsia -- Fingerprinting Jackson Pollock? / Peter Paul Biro -- Appendix 1 : notes on conservation of the Matter paintings -- Appendix 2 : chronology of the relationship of the Matters and Pollocks / prepared with the assistance of Nancy Cohen, Jeffrey Head, and Michael R. Weil, Jr.
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