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TitleNumber 4

Creator namePollock, Jackson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1949

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil, enamel, and aluminum paint with pebbles on cut canvas, on composition board

Dimensions35 5/8 x 34 3/8 in.

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/24235

Accession number1980.12.6

SubjectsPainting, American--20th centuryArt, AbstractAbstract expressionism--United States

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1. The Abstract Expressionist Hero

Ann Eden Gibson

Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics

JACKSON POLLOCK PEERS from a dark interior over a foreground crowded with cans of paint, squinting warily at readers from the pages of the 9 November 1959 issue of Life magazine (fig. 2). Despite its title, “Baffling U.S. Art,” the article accompanying the photograph calls Pollock’s work the most influential in the world and credits him with having created a style that was “tense, explosive, mysterious, and altogether new.” The tone of the posthumous article (Pollock died in an automobile …

Author

Ann Eden Gibson

PublisherYale University Press

CopyrightYale University Press 1999

Related print edition pages: pp.1-17

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00006.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14795&redirecttoanchor=13598

Chapter subject tags:Abstract expressionism--United StatesGender identity in artPollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Motherwell, RobertMasculinity in artKrasner, Lee, 1908-1984Art criticism--United States--History--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994Sexual minorities in artSmith, David, 1906-1965

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