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Pollock
Leonhard Emmerling
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Description for Pollock
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 582.
The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Pollock's most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more ... Read more
The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention to develop his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Pollock's most famous works are his drip paintings, where he dripped and poured household enamel paint over the canvas with a variety of instruments, from sticks to syringes, hardened brushes to broken bits of glass. The splattered results pulsate with energy, replacing the refinement of easel and brush with something altogether more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836529075
SKU
V9783836529075
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About Leonhard Emmerling
Leonhard Emmerling received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg for a thesis titled Jean Dubuffet's Art Theory. Since 2010 he has headed the Visual Arts Division at the Goethe-Institute's head office in Munich and was previously active as a curator at various art institutions in Germany. His publications include TASCHEN's Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jackson Pollock.
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