Jackson Pollock: veiling the image

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"At the beginning, the canvas is white, void; then the cautious start, then the running of the paint from the pot onto the white of the surface..." Hans Namuth.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 which began to replace the fading nineteenth century. Just like in a novel, 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.  Read more... Abstract: "At the beginning, the canvas is white, void; then the cautious start, then the running of the paint from the pot onto the white of the surface..." Hans Namuth.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 which began to replace the fading nineteenth century. Just like in a novel, 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 Content: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DEDICATION CONTENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Reproductions Titles of Paintings Biographies Historical Context Portraits Cycles THE MYTH OF THE ARTIST COWBOY Birth Cody Fiction The Real McCoy Stranger Than Fiction The Pollock Family Religion Pollock the Cowboy Family Politics Early Veils The Advent of Abstract Expressionism The Early Influences Pre-teen Art Education Uprooted Again Teenage Years Early Vision of Career Roots of Alcoholic Behaviour Benton American Art The Need for an American Artist The Movie: Pollock Dean of Art Lee Krasner Guggenheim's Early SightingsGuggenheim's Autobiographies Closing of Art of This Century One-Man Shows Guggenheim's Profits Farmhouse The Studio Floor Blue Poles in PollockSquared Farmhouse The Studio Floor Blue Poles in PollockSquared Pollock-Krasner House Theosophy Coming of Rage Inarticulate Communicator Technique Described The Orozco Mural New York City Benton Revisited Legends Old Friends Benton as Role Model Art Students League Writing Home Father's Death New York Again Rita Benton Seeking Money Advent of Originality The Mexican Muralists Trying to Unveil the Image of PollockSiqueiros Unusual Paints Eureka! Meeting Krasner Psychoanalysis The Drunk In the Shadow of Picasso Classic Influences Other Influences Originality STRUGGLING DURING THE EARLY YEARS:MAKING ENERGY VISIBLE Political Issues Greenwich Village Rebirth Moby Dick Peggy Guggenheim Howard Putzel Suicides Reviewing Influences "I Am Nature." Shift of Influence Centres A New Process The Advent of Fame Automatism Surrealists The Unconscious Money Matters First One-Man Show Pattern Within the Pattern Beginning to Change the World Mural Pollock's SensitivityKrasner's Productivity The Atomic Age Global Art Village She-Wolf Guardians of the Secret Less Popular Works Holiday Between One-Man Shows Second One-Man Show Cincinnati Again Third Solo, Second at AOTC Broadening the Horizon Marriage Productivity Creative Block The Gestural Veiling Stealing the Soul Final AOTC Betty Parsons Life Magazine Easel versus Mural Lucifer Very Active Year 'In' the Painting Signature In the Mood Out of the Web Music Alcoholism Seventh One-Man Show, Second at Parsons Pollock, the Sculptor Tony Smith Alfonso Ossorio The 'Intrasubjectives'Abstract Expressionism BRILLIANT PEAK YEARS: ART AS SELF-DISCOVERY Venice Number 1A, 1948 Lavender Mist All-Over Clement Greenberg John Graham Harold RosenbergEarly in his career, Rosenberg Despair and Technical Maturation 'The Irascibles' The Irascibles' Photo Shows in Italy New Yorkers versus Parisians No Chaos Hans Namuth Relapse Parsons Revisited Pollock in Vogue Unveiling the Image The Club Communication skills Pollock: Number One The Composite Less Veiled: More Shows Convergence Tracking Blue Poles More International Exposure