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Title: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven W. Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ISBN: 0-06-097367-6 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book.
Comment: This is one of the most interesting biographies I've read in a long time. I think Pollock is mostly misunderstood. He was a very good painter, but he's a simple guy, looking to be famous to make a few bucks, have a few kids, and remain relatively on the level, but Lee Krasner knew better. Pollock hated "phonies" and felt he had became one after the Look article, etc.. Here you'll find all those wonderful Pollock stories in fine detail. Like him pissing into peggy Guggenhiem's fireplace during a cocktail party. This book will give you the history of that period like no other, and a feel for what it's like to be an ambitious artist in the New York art world. Great supporting cast in Lee Krasner, Clement Greenberg, Peggy Guggenhiem, and all those painters!
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent bio on an abusive and brilliant artist?
Comment: This is a well researched and written biography. Pollock was alcoholic, abusive and not someone I would have wanted to know. He hurt the woman he loved- or at least loved him. This biography travels through the world of art and money as well as the bowels of self-hatred and Hell. Was he an artist or just lucky (drip painting)? Do some brilliant moments in creativity justify such abuse toward others? Was his confusion about his sexual identity at the core of his artistic and abusive self? This biography goes into the psychological and creative mind and life of an extremely complex though not so interesting individual. Given the right circumstances just about anyone can appear interesting and brilliant. Good connections and lucky breaks can pave the way to painting a brilliant illusion. Maybe that was his greatest masterpiece. With that all said, the biography is brilliant, and that's no illusion. One of the most insightful reads on the art world during the middle of the twentieth century. You'll read about famous people, and find a new and enlightening perspective of how it evolved and the stuff it was made of. Highly enjoyable and recommended!
Rating: 2
Summary: Commits almost all of the sins of the biographer's craft
Comment: The Naifeh/White Smith biography of Jackson Pollock is extensively researched, and it's also (for what it's worth) fairly readable. But it's a pretty bad biography. The writers feel free to let their imaginations run riot, and indulge in weak psychobiographic speculation with little proof or justification, and they seem intent on "reading" Pollock's life as if it were a coherent and pre-written text (the most offensive example of this is at the end, when they seem to suggest Jackson's death, and his attendent criminally negligent killing of Edith Metzger, were somehow part of his artist's journey). I think a major artist like Pollock deserves a better and more responsible biography.
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Title: Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock by Helen Harrison ISBN: 1560252847 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title:Pollock ASIN: B00005KHJJ Publisher: Columbia/Tristar Studios Pub. Date: 24 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.46 |
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Title: Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe ISBN: 0870700685 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Lee Krasner (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 15) by Robert Carleton Hobbs, Robert Hobbs ISBN: 1558592830 Publisher: Abbeville Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Jackson Pollock: Key Interviews, Articles, and Reviews by Pepe Karmel ISBN: 0870700375 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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