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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Donald Wigal. Pollock
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Abbreviations
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 Sightings
Guggenheim’s Autobiographies
Closing of Art of This Century
One-Man Shows
Guggenheim’s Profits
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 Pollock
Siqueiros
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 Sensitivity
Krasner’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 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
The 1954 Show
Portrait and a Dream
The Genius of His Gesture: Involving Art and Others in His Self-Destruction
Breaking Away
Piet Mondrian
Ruth Kligman
Edith Metzger
Matta
Zowie
Anticipation
The Final Photo
The Crash
Death Notice
Grave Site
Remembering
Myths
Retrospective
Action Painting Revisited
Agnes Martin
Pollock’s Legacy
Indelible Impressions
de Kooning
Frank O’Hara
The Market for Pollock
1978 Retrospective
In The New Millennium
MoMa 2004
Reincarnating Pollock
Appendix
Sources: Anthology
Commentary and Chronology
Websites
Bibliography
Selected Resources
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The author acknowledges Ruth Kligman; Athos Zacharius; the Art Chronicles of the Smithsonian; Jerry Saltz, Village Voice art critic; photographer Robin Holland; artists James Cullina of ArtSleuth, Bob Stanley, Kathy Segall, and Bill Rabinovitch; authors Carmel Reingold, James Robert Parish, George Sullivan, Susan Waggoner, and William Kuhns; agents Stephany Evans, Elaina Zucker, Robert Markel; Barlow Hartman and Mercedes Ruehl; James Yohe of Ameringer/Yohe/Fine Art; Tina Dickey, editor of the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné; Maggie Seildon of Jason McCoy Gallery; Cheryl Orlick of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Bradley D. Cook of Indiana University Archives; Jennifer Ickes of the New Orleans Museum of Art; Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum; Verity Hawson, Lillian Kiesler, Cornelia Sontag, Bérangère Mardelé, and Eliane de Sérésin of Parkstone Press; for research support, Bro. Frank O’Donnell, Edie LaGuardia Hansen, Dr. Mark Cooper and Gene Carney; Vera Haldy for German translation; Herbert Verbesey and Gerard Sullivan for the Latin dedication; Antonio Bautista, Michael Morris; Cheryl Murray of Entertainment Law Digest; also, Alternative Research for on-line research; Richart Taylor and his Jackson Pollock center at the University of Oregon.
Thanks to Catherine O’Reilly for her dedication, generosity, meticulous and expert editorial input on this and a dozen books over the past 25 years.
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Unlike formal biographies, this one occasionally refers to fictional or poetic works which allude to Pollock’s real life.
However, it should be acknowledged that these fictional accounts are less reliable than authoritative biographies and at times they are admittedly outrageous. However, the most fanciful, such as the poem Jackson Pollock by Frank O’Hara, or the Bill Rabinovitch movie PollockSquared (2005), can get to truths rarely touched on by facts alone.
