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The Jackson Pollock Artist Box is designed to introduce you to Pollock the person and Pollock the artist, and to provide projects that will put you in touch with his creative process. Using his techniques, you can invent your own images and arrive at your own statement. ... Read more

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Jackson Pollock made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of the artist's most memorable achievements. A short and lively essay by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum, accompanies each work, illuminating its significance and placing it in its historical moment in the development of Modern art and the artist's own life. This volume provides a unique overview of someone who shaped the development of American art since mid-century and is an excellent resource for readers interested in the stories behind the masterpieces of the Modern canon.Amazon.com Review
The almost mythic Jackson Pollock--a roughshod, ill-mannered,prodigiously ambitious, aggressive, alcoholic, tormented artist--isalive and unwell in this book. But Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, thechief curator and adjunct assistant curator, respectively, of theMuseum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture, also godeeply into Pollock's art in eye-opening ways. This book is thecatalog for the retrospective of Pollock's art-shattering oeuvre atthe Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1998 and includes manybiographical pictures as well as color plates of Pollock's paintings,from the awkward but earnest early works to the late, great, famouscanvasses. Varnedoe's essay, aptly titled "Comet: Jackson Pollock'sLife and Work," deftly invites the reader into Pollock's world,starting with his country studio: "The structure, often called a barn,is in fact more like a glorified tool shed." Karmel's essay, "Pollockat Work: The Films and Photographs of Hans Namuth," is a trulygroundbreaking exploration of Pollock's technique. Karmel hasscrutinized every frame of every piece of film, still or moving, evertaken of Pollock painting. He arrives at absolutely originalconclusions: Pollock's all-over swirls of dripped and flung paintoften began as figurative works and clearly relate to suchall-American stalwarts as Thomas Hart Benton. Karmel makes countlessother sharp observations, noting the difference, for example, betweenfast-looking marks and the slow, deliberate movements with which theywere made (and vice versa). His essay is a work of brilliantscholarship, written thrillingly, and it will forever change the wayany serious viewer looks at Pollock's paintings. It makes this volumeabsolutely essential for understanding the work of this great, sadartist. --Peggy Moorman ... Read more

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Excellent
This item came WAY before the expected arrival date and was in the condition the seller stated it would be.I was very satisfied with it :)

Pollock, only Pollock, nothing else but Pollock
This is the catalogue for the landmark Pollock exhibition held at the Moma and the Tate in 1998-1999. Considering the steep rise in the insurance value of Pollock's paintings, such a comprehensive retrospective is not likely to be repeated in the near future and we are therefore fortunate to have such a brilliant book to help us remember it. The late Kirk Varnedoe was one of the best interpreters of contemporary American art and his text, never anecdotical and always informative without being pedantic, does justice to the masterpieces without falling into any of the cliches that often pollute our view of this great artist.

Beautiful illustrations make this book an indispensable presence in any arts library.

simply the best
This breathtaking catalogue is simply the best single volume available on Jackson Pollock, and this is primarily--but not only--because of the number and quality of the reproductions it offers. Almost every one of the dozen or so Pollock books in my library contains a painting not available in the others, but this book collects and beautifully photographs the greatest number and variety of his canvases--outside of a catalogue raisonee.

As the other reviewers state, there are many generously-sized fold-out pages here, and the crispness and resolution of these big reprints and of the more modest pages are simply amazing. To take two essential examples, this book's reprints of "One: Number 31, 1950" and "Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952" are astoundingly clear, better than any of the many other versions I've seen in art books, even in Ellen Landau's large-format survey, a book which also includes gatefolds.

(Another reviewer, by the by, states that "Lucifer" is not available in any other book, which is not true. Among other places, it appears in Landau, in Elizabeth's Frank's concise volume, and as the sole color reproduction in the book for the 1965 MOMA retrospective. Anyway, it gets terrific treatment here.)

Another invaluable inclusion in this book is a great number of full-sized detail photos of the canvases. For example, on a page adjacent to "Lucifer" and "Autumn Rhythm" and "Full Fathom Five," we see another photo of just one small section of that same painting but in 1-to-1 scale; these details reveal much of the dynamic, kinetic, urgent quality of these works, their encrustations of sand, glass, pennies, paint caps--traits which even this book could otherwise never offer a livingroom Pollock-viewer.

Further, having seen the exhibit in January of 1999, I can attest to the generally excellent fidelity of the color-balance. (Curiously, no one seems to be able to capture "Autumn Rhythm"'s grey-teal passages in a book, but if you were at this show or have viewed the painting at the Met you've seen them.)

The accompanying articles are excellent. Kirk Varnedoe overviews of Pollock's life, artistic aims, his accomplishments, all illustrated with family and archival photographs and drawing on Pollock quotations. Pepe Karmel uses the extensive photographic and film record of Pollock painting to analyze Pollock's physical movements. Most wonderful are Karmel's computer reconstructions of early states of the painting "Autumn Rythm," based on Hans Namuth's photos of Pollock at work.

In sum, this book gives the finest, fullest offering of both Pollock's life and art.

Best Reproductions and Most Complete
I picked this book up at the MOMA Pollock retrospective a couple years ago and have used it extensively.Having seen many of the paintings in this book firsthand, I can say that these are some of the best reproductions offerred in book form on Pollock's work.Another plus is that several paintings are printed on fold-out pages, so that the work doesn't cross the book's seam.So many of his paintings are extremely wide that this makes a lot of sense (otherwise, there would be hardly any resolution in the height dimension).

If you're interested in Pollock and need to refer to the reproductions, I absolutely recommend this book above all others out there.

Pollock Without the Boring Mythologizing
Excellent companion piece to the MOMA show (which traveled to London's Tate) goes beyond all other Pollock explorations.A "must" for students of modern American art as well as those just wanting to get abetter understanding of what Pollock was REALLY DOING.

Large formatfeatures fold-out reproductions of breathtakingly high quality.Amongthese, incredibly, are paintings not found in any other published sources. (The incomparable Lucifer (1947) is one such work).

The text isscholarly but readable, and although there is a considerable amount of it,each open page of writing offers at least a couple relevant and highlyinteresting photos or other illustrations.The many large color plateswould certainly make a gorgeous and impressive coffee table book for anyonewho doesn't choose to read it.

Kirk Varnedoe writes definitively aboutPollock's mercurial life & career.Varnedoe's nearly 75 pages ofbiographical analysis are a welcome alternative to the kind of misguidedmythologizing about Pollock that has for a long time colored the artist asan overrated art "star."

Pepe Karmel's contribution to thisbook is an amazing analysis of Pollock's painting process through anexhaustive examination of the famous films and photographs of Pollock atwork.This was a fascinating, ground-breaking part of the exhibition, andis equally wonderful in the book.

Well worth the price. ... Read more

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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A thorough and riveting biography of the American Abstract Expressionist painter. Beginning with Pollock's birth, the reader is taken on a 48-page journey through the trials and tribulations ... Read more

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Pollock's work
American artist Jackson Pollock lived a sometimes troubled and ultimately tragic life, despite his success in popularizing revolutionary methods of creating art. Clare Oliver's contribution to Scholastic's "Artists In Their Time" series does not sugar-coat or contradict the reality of that life, one of frequent reclusion and alcohol addiction but also containing periods of both failure and success. It also does its best to make the abstract expressionist movement understandable and accessible to young readers without passing any sort of judgment on its merit. Instead, the reader is given a clear picture of the place Pollock's innovations held in the history of art. Background information on the era in which Pollock lived and worked is helpful, but not intrusive. Illustrations are excellent. ... Read more

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Great book featuring the art of American Abstract Espressionist painter Jackson Pollock.95 mostly black and white illustrations (20 color illustrations) of works by Pollock - paintings and drawings. Chronology of the artist. Bibliography. Softcover. 125 pages. Measures 7 by 10 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jackson Pollock, Captain Beefheart, Charles Alston, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Jane Frank, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Tobey, Elaine Hamilton-O'neal, Vincent Cavallaro, Conrad Marca-Relli, Louise Bourgeois, Samuel Bookatz, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Albert Kotin, Enrico Donati, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Cleve Gray, Paul Burlin, Perle Fine, Louis Schanker, George Morrison, Ludwig Merwart, Mark Eshbaugh, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Luc Leestemaker, Balcomb Greene, David Smith, Fred Mitchell, Helen Berman, Giorgio Cavallon, Joe Stefanelli, Jules Olitski, Julius Hatofsky, Richard Diebenkorn, John Copnall, Helen Frankenthaler, Milton Resnick, Arthur Sarkissian, Knox Martin, Ernest Briggs, Morris Louis, Fritz Bultman, Elaine de Kooning, Rhea Carmi, Mary Callery, David Hare, Michael Goldberg, Earl Kerkam, Mary Abbott, Marla Olmstead, Charles Seliger, Walter Darby Bannard, Joseph Pisani, Jan Müller, Robert Motherwell, Paul Jenkins, Joan Mitchell, Robert de Niro, Sr., Herbert Ferber, Seymour Fogel, Alfonso A. Ossorio, James Verbicky, Franz Kline, Tom Savage, Lyn Ott, Scott A. Spencer, Hans Hartung, William Ronald, Norman Bluhm, Jack Tworkov, Tetsumi Kudo, Ibram Lassaw, James Brooks, Esteban Vicente, Nicholas Hondrogen, Vincent Pepi, Nicolas Carone, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Pousette-Dart, Serge Poliakoff, John Chamberlain, Grace Hartigan, Marlene Tseng Yu, Hans Burkhardt, Natvar Bhavsar, Norman Lewis, Paul Wonner, Al Held, Alfred L. Copley, Julio Rosado Del Valle, John Altoon, Taro Yamamoto, Harold Shapinsky, Jimmy Ernst, Carl Holty, Ion Ţuculescu, Roy Newell, Windsor Utley, George Johnson, James Gahagan, Franck de Las Mercedes, Jack Whitten, Charles Ragland Bunnell, David Park, Jack Bush, Fuller Potter, William Baziotes, Malcolm Morley, Theodoros Stamos, Theophilus Brow...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63283 ... Read more

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The creativity of the most celebrated artists of the modern period has been enriched and expanded by their work in the print medium. Exploiting the potential of such techniques as woodcut, lithography, etching and screenprint, as well as other processes, these artists have added immeasurably to their expressive vocabularies. Many have availed themselves of the expertise offered by master printers in professional workshops and have benefited from the fruits of such collaboration. They have found inspiration in traditional printed formats, such as portfolios and illustrated books, and have used them to explore thematic interests. As a result of these experiences, printmaking has exerted influence on their work in other mediums and has become integral to their creative thinking as a whole. Finally, the fact that prints are made in editions rather than as single impressions has enabled these artists to reach a much broader audience than would otherwise be possible.~This volume includes the work of artists from the late 19th century to the present and demonstrates the imaginative ways in which they used print techniques. The potential of the woodcut was explored by Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, and the woodcut later became a major preoccupation of the German Expressionists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann; lithographed posters were a specialty of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró experimented with drypoint, etching, and lithography, among other techniques, in new and original ways; Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns exploited the painterly aspects of lithography and the commercial look of screenprint. The current generation of artists, among them Terry Winters and Kiki Smith, has gravitated to printed art as an essential aspect of their creative practice, with major bodies of work already produced.~Including more than 200 illustrations, this publication is organized as an unfolding historical narrative with a focus on individual artists, each with a succinct text describing his or her relationship to printmaking. Bibliographic references cite the latest scholarship in the field. An index of artists, printers, and publishers reflects the involvement of various partners in the printmaking enterprise. All works reproduced are from The Museum of Modern Art's extraordinary collection of over 50,000 prints, the finest of its kind in the world.With more than 200 prints by such modern masters as Hans Arp, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Georges Braque, Vija Celmins, Paul Cézanne, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marcel Duchamp, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, Robert Gober, Natalia Goncharova, Peter Halley, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Vasily Kandinsky, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Fernand Léger, Sol LeWitt, Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Emily Nolde, Chris Ofili, Sigmar Polke, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Susan Rothenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle and Kara WalkerEssay by Deborah Wye.Clothbound, 9.5 x 11 in./240 pgs / 275 color 20 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20148 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related, single-car crash. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. In 2000, Pollock was the subject of an Academy Awardwinning film Pollock directed by and starring Ed Harris. Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, the youngest of five brothers. His parents, Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, grew up in Tingley, Iowa. His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of one another. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; the former, Irish; the latter, Scotch-Irish. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government. Jackson grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. Expelled from one high school in 1928, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, from which he was also expelled. During his early life, he experienced Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father. In 1930, following his brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City where they both... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16307 ... Read more