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Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the "icebreaker". For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate for the status of the Master of the American School. During the many upheavals in his life in Nez York in the 1950s and 60s, Pollock lost his bearings - success had simply come too fast and too easily. It was during this period that he turned to alcohol and disintegrated his marriage to Lee Krasner. His life ended like that of 50s film icon James Dean behind the wheel of his Oldsmobile, after a night of drinking.
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Table of contents
1POLLOCK
2Text: Donald Wigal
3Jackson Pollock
4end fifty years ago.
5The myth of the artist cowboy
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6spirit, especially in the bars of Lower Manhattan.
7and contemporary art as ‘with’ or ‘after’ Pollock.
8flat to the ground.
9The Benton Student
10Epistolary exchanges with home
11First flight
12Progress Administration (WPA, later called the Work Project Administration).
13The Origins of his alcoholism
14or alcoholics: his father, his co-workers, and Benton.
15even for an adult.
16Alcoholism and therapies
17The arrival of Abstract Expressionism
18Hans Namuth
19Hans Hofmann, from 1937 to 1940.
20strength for nearly everything for the rest of his life.
21Description of his technique
22shellac, Duco, cellulose lacquers and silicones, and other synthetic industrial materials. He
23technical imperfection.
24Review of his influences
25Motherwell and Matta.
26become, strangely enough, the greatest painter since Picasso”.
27garde art world”.
28A new process
29between ‘right-brained’ feeling and ‘left-brained’ thinking.
30The arrival of glory
31Mural
32A new process
33The climax of his success
34merely decorative.
35the show with a group of Italian modern art fans.
36Relapse
37art career.
38a painter.
39and this young woman.
40master in other ways.
41through that tragic evening.
42Along with de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson
43BIOGRAPHY
44Jackson graduates from Grant Elementary School.
45Attends Siqueiros’ Laboratory of Modern Techniques Art Workshop.
4611th August 1956
47LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
48(Sounds in the Grass Series), 1946.
4949 Easter and the Totem, 1953.
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