Jackson Pollock : blind spots / edited by Gavin Delahunty ; assisted by Stephanie Straine ; with essays by Jo Applin, Gavin Delahunty, Michael Fried and Stephanie Straine.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Tate Liverpool, June 30-October 18, 2015, and Dallas Museum of Art, November 20, 2015-March 20, 2016. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Beyond work: Pollock drawing / Chelsea Pierce and Fabian Leyva-Barragan. 'Some new category': Remarks on several black Pollocks / Michael Fried -- Last things: Jackson Pollock's sculpture / Jo Applin -- Beyond work: Pollock drawing / Stephanie Straine -- Exhibition chronology / Chelsea Pierce and Fabian Leyva-Barragan.
Summary:
Jackson Pollock was one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century. This fully illustrated publication accompanies the first exhibition in over three decades of a crucial phase of his work, referred to as the Black Pourings. This controversial body of black enamel and oil paintings, which were exceptional in their absolute merging of colour and surface, are accompanied here by drawings that are regarded as his most important and productive as a draughtsman. "Jackson Pollock (1912-56) was one of the most radical, influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century. In 1947 he developed a unique method of dripping trails of paint onto a canvas laid flat on the floor, pioneering the completely abstract 'all-over' style known as abstract expressionism. This lavishly illustrated publication accompanies the first exhibition in over three decades of the next crucial phase of his work, referred to as the black pourings. Produced between 1951 and 1953, these paintings signalled a deliberate move away from the iconic drip technique and, most surprisingly, sometimes even featured figurative elements. Fifty years after the appearance of his groundbreaking essay, Michael Fried has now produced a thorough reappraisal of the works especially for this publication. Essays by Jo Applin, Gavin Delahunty and Stephanie Straine further explore the paintings and their related drawings, regarded as Pollock's most important as a draughtsman, as well as rarely seen sculptures that further illuminate Pollock's experimentations with space, density and figuration." -- Publisher's description.
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