Jackson Pollock - Hardcover

Ellen G. Landau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500092036 ISBN 13: 9780500092033

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1989

Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the artist, this engaging book, now available again, explores in vivid detail the life and career of Jackson Pollock. It reproduces more than 100 paintings in full colour, including six foldouts, together with over 170 illustrations in black and white. A wealth of comparative photographs illustrating paintings by artists whom Pollock admired further explains the work of this complex, tragic and immeasurably influential figure.

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Review:

"On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally 'in' the painting."

About the Author:

Ellen G. Landau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art History and Art, CaseWestern Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Her previous books include Lee Krasner:A Catalogue Raisonne and Reading Abstract Expressionism.

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