Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | ND 237 .P73 S68 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 613224 |
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ND 237 .P15 A25 1938 Queer thing, painting; forty years in the world of art. | ND 237 .P73 E46 2009 Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956 : at the limit of painting / | ND 237 .P73 L36 1989 Jackson Pollock / | ND 237 .P73 S68 1998 The essential Jackson Pollock / | ND 237 .P73 T63 1968 Pollock: the life and work of the artist; illustrated with 80 colour plates, | ND 237 .R28 A4 1998 John Register : persistent observer / | ND 237 .R36 A4 2003 Frederic Remington : the color of night / |
The myth surrounding the man -- The early Jackson Pollock -- His Western childhood -- The raucous teenage years -- His move to New York -- Pollock's idols and therapists -- Personal problems -- Enter Lee Krasner, artist then wife -- Hello Peggy Guggenheim, dealer and patron -- The myth begins -- Lee and Jackson move to the Hamptons -- Betty Parsons takes on Pollock -- Drip painting is born -- Special: Titles of Pollock's paintings--and museum labels -- Abstract Expressionism enters the vocabulary of art -- Fame paralyzes the man, brings on the booze -- Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock -- After the Drip, the Pour -- Then, Black and White -- The blues: Pollock leaves Parsons for Sidney Janis -- Finally, color returns, just as all goes black.
For readers who are short on time, long on curiosity, and turned off by art-world jargon, Abrams presents a series of hip, entertaining books on artists and pop culture.
* A fascinating account of the artist's life and work
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* Superb, full-color reproductions
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