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Jackson Pollock (Phaidon)

$22.95 USD
$22.95 USD
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) led the vanguard of post-World War II American art with his pioneering method of painting, which broke with tradition in both subject matter and technique. Engaging viscerally with emotions, thoughts and other intangibles, he used fluid pigment poured directly onto the canvas. His liquid medium, applied with sweeping gestures, proved to be the ideal vehicle for the mercurial content that he sought to communicate: “energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space.” Charting the course of his life and career, from his early training in figurative painting to his position as the most critically acclaimed proponent of Abstract Expressionism, this book sets Pollock’s artistic development in the context of his volatile personal life and his wide-ranging artistic influences, including Mexican murals and Native American art, as well as European modernism. Pollock’s extraordinary impact became evident when his patron Peggy Guggenheim declared him to be “the greatest painter since Picasso.”