Pollock
TASCHEN 25 - Special edition!
Painting as a concept
A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso and Mexican surrealism and developed his own way of seeing, interpreting, and expressing. Though his name inevitably conjures up images of the drip paintings for which he is most famous, this technique was only developed midway through his career. The progression from his earlier work to his final "action" paintings —a veritable revolution of painting as a concept—reveals the genius of this tortured artist whom many call the greatest modern American painter.
About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:
- a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
- approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
- a concise biography
About the author:
Leonhard Emmerling received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg for a thesis entitled 'Kunsttheorie Jean Dubuffets.' Since 2002 he has been working as an author and contemporary art exhibition curator in Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Krefeld and Ludwigsburg, Germany. He is currently director of St Paul Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, and curator of the New Zealand pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2009. His previous publications include TASCHEN’s Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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 Pollock
Emmerling, Dr. Leonhard
Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm (9.4 x 11.8 in.), 96 pages $ 14.99 |
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"TASCHEN sorprende con esta grata publicación traducida al español. Presentada en tapa dura el libro recorre la vida y obra de Pollock desde sus inicios, cuando abandona la figuración y adopta la abstracción gestual lineal. (...) Esta obra es una de las pocas referencias serias y concretas sobre este artista."
Somos Revista, Lima, Peru
Somos Revista, Lima, Peru
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