Focusing on the relationship between content and form, this survey redefines abstract art by expanding the traditional canon to include diverse global artists. It highlights the significance of various cultural influences and perspectives, offering a fresh look at how abstract art can be understood and appreciated beyond conventional boundaries.
Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the artist, this book explores in vivid detail the life and career of Jackson Pollock. It reproduces over 100 paintings in full colour, together with over 170 black and white illustrations.
The recent Jackson Pollock exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art was a critical triumph, proving that sometimes more is better. With the line to get in the door snaking endlessly around the block and the faces of the viewers inside showing astonishment at the sheer experience of seeing so much of the pioneer of abstract expressionism's work in one place, Pollock's position in art history has become assured. Featured on the cover of the catalogue is one of Hans Namuth's photographs of the artist at work; many more are shown inside. An essay on the artist's turbulent life and violent end are highlights, but the real story here is the more than 200 color reproductions of the paintings, prints, and drawings, including some to-scale details and gatefold spreads of major works.