A study of the life and work of the avant-garde artist supplemented by reproductions of many of his works

Larry Rivers (Icon Editions)

Arts & Photography

Harrison, Helen A.

Individual Artists

Icon.

A study of the life and work of the avant-garde artist supplemented by reproductions of many of his works

Larry Rivers (ICON EDITIONS)

Biographies & Memoirs

Icon (Harper & Row)

East Hampton avant-garde: A salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957-1960

East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art

Larry Rivers

Other Media

Harper & Row / Artnews Books

40 page catalog titled WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE NEW DEAL ERA.

Women Artists of the New Deal Era

Natl Museum of Women in the Arts

Silkscreen: Arnold Hoffmann Jr. and the Art of the Print

Hoffmann, Arnold, Jr.

Museums at Stony Brook

Book by Harrison, Helen A.;Queens Museum;Cusker, Joseph P.

Dawn of a new day: The New York World's Fair, 1939/40

Queens Museum

Cusker, Joseph P.

New York University Press

No modern artist is more controversial than Jackson Pollock, whose life is the subject of a new feature film starring Ed Harris. With an intense, troubled personality that many see reflected in his radical "drip" paintings, Pollock was the first American painter to be hailed internationally as an innovator. Even before his death in a drunken car crash in 1956, he was mythologized as Abstract Expressionism's quintessential bad boy. But he was also respected for his sincerity, loved for his sweet nature, and envied for his brilliance. Today Pollock's legend looms larger than ever, inspiring poets, playwrights, composers, and choreographers, as well as visual artists. The film Pollock starring Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock, Marcia Gay Harden, Val Kilmer, and Jennifer Connelly is set to be released late Fall 2000. His art, never popular in the conventional sense, has a growing cadre of dedicated enthusiasts. Why is Pollock such an enduring touchstone of American culture? This collection of writings, interviews, creative responses, and personal revelations - many never before published or long out of print - examines the multiple dimensions of his impact and influence, and proves that the real Pollock is even more fascinating than the myth. The book includes never before published art, photos, letters and interviews from the Pollock-Krasner House archives, new contributions by actor/director Ed Harris and musician Patti Smith, and interviews with Patsy Southgate and Willem de Kooning, as well as Clement Greenberg, Peggy Guggenheim, Hans Namuth, Frank O'Hara, Jeffrey Potter, Norman Rockwell, and Barney Rossett.

Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollack

History & Criticism

Thunder's Mouth Press

When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Sergeant John J. O'Connell and his team from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland in search of a killer who left a grotesque calling card. Suspicion soon falls on the tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did one of their bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Set in the sexually liberated New York art worid of the 1940s, populated by European artists in exile and the young Americans itching to take over the avant-garde, Harrison's tale is an amalgam of truth and invention. That turbulent era's creative ferment is the backdrop for a desperate crime and its lethal consequences. 
 "Smart, witty, filled with so much history of the period, beautifully written, and suspenseful." Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Death Artist

An Exquisite Corpse: Death in Surrealist New York

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Mira Digital Publishing

An Exquisite Corspe (Art of Murder Mysteries, 1)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Dreamscape Media

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