Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his "dripping" painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often apart, whether they were traveling for work or for studies, sons and parents kept in close touch through their regular exchange of letters. Their correspondence offers an invaluable insight into the formation of one of America's most influential artists, but it also draws a unique portrait of America itself between two momentous events in its history: the Great Depression and World War II. 
These letters - many of which are published for the first time in this volume - show that the Pollock brothers took a keen and early interest in art and politics. Their interest in painting was stimulated in part by Thomas Hart Benton, then a teacher at the Art Students League in New York, whose passion and commitment was to influence them profoundly. Jackson followed his oldest brother Charles to New York to study with Benton. While Charles subscribed to many of his mentor's left-wing beliefs and remained determined to bring art and social justice together, Jackson was far less committed to this ideal - he enjoyed life and traveled across America, hitting the open road and jumping from train to train, finding himself thrown out of school and even ending up in prison for a day, prodded on by his pronounced mystical leanings to search for his own way to express his artistic intuitions. Through this vivid, lively and often moving correspondence from an atypical yet very American family, we catch a novel glimpse of Jackson Pollock the man, as well as of the various artistic schools and debates that established what has now become modern art. This remarkable volume will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Jackson Pollock and modern art, as well as anyone interested in twentieth-century America. The volume includes original works of art by Charles Pollock and an Introduction by Michael Leja, an expert on Abstract Expressionism and the work of Jackson Pollock.

American Letters: 1927-1947

Arts & Photography

Pollock, Jackson

History & Criticism

Polity

Jaskon Pollock - Convergence: 1,000 Piece Puzzle (Pomegranate Artpiece Puzzle)

Pomegranate

Focusing on Jackson Pollock, this is one of an illustrated series which provides accounts of the lives of individual artists, professional and personal anecdotes, and concise definitions of cultural and social movements that shaped their work.

The Essential Jackson Pollock

Spring, Justin

Biographies & Memoirs

Harry N. Abrams

Jackson Pollock: Black Enamel Paintings : April-May 1990

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Jackson Pollock: Supplement Number One to a Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works

Children's Books

O’Connor, Francis V.

Biographies

British Museum Pubns Ltd

If the contorted imagery and wild brushwork of French Expressionist Chaim Soutine became key features of French modern art in the 1920s, they also exerted a lasting and meaningful influence on many major post-war painters. Willem de Kooning considered Soutine his favorite painter, and Jackson Pollock's late work "Scent" was a homage to the Lithuanian-born painter. Jean Dubuffet's concept of art was affected by Soutine's seemingly untaught and direct manner, and Francis Bacon was dramatically affected by his ability to freely capture the essence of the personage portrayed. Through key paintings, especially those created in the decade after 1918, The Impact of Chaim Soutine reveals not only the seminal power and reverberant originality of this 20th-century artist, but also the depth and expressiveness that his influence added to the art of four of the most important American, French, and British artists.

Impact of Chaim Soutine: De Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Francis Bacon, The

BACON, FRANCIS

TUCHMAN, Maurice

DUBUFFET, Jean

DE KOONING, WILLEM

Dunow, Esti

Soutine, Chaim

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Jackson Pollock: Werke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York, und europïschen Sammlungen (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

KEHRER

Jackson Pollock: The Irascibles and the New York School

POLÍGRAFA

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