ISBN9780300222036:f0318-01

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TitleGalaxy

Creator namePollock, Jackson

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1947

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil and aluminum paint on canvas

Dimensions43 1/2 x 34 in. (110.5 x 86.4 cm)

LocationJoslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/permanent-collections/postwar-and-contemporary/jackson-pollock-galaxy/

Accession number1949.16

SubjectsPainting, American--20th centuryGalaxiesAbstract expressionism--United StatesAstronomy in art

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Chapter V. Observatories

Kirsten Hoving

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars

~DURING THE 1940S CORNELL’S ART moved in several directions simultaneously. He continued to explore the physical universe in a series of soap bubble sets and other works devoted to natural history. At the same time, he remained fascinated by American popular culture and based boxes and collages on themes derived from the world of Hollywood. He also...

Author

Kirsten Hoving

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.120-157

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Chapter subject tags:Cornell, JosephConstellations in artChristian ScienceAssemblage (Art)--United States--20th centuryArt and science--United States--20th centuryAstronomy in art

6. The Unhappy Consciousness

T. J. Clark

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

Once Upon a Time. When I first came across the lines by the duke of Aquitaine some years ago, naturally I imagined them in Jackson Pollock’s mouth. They put me in mind of modernism; or of one moment of modernism, which I realized I had been trying (and failing) to get in focus ever since I had read Harmonium or looked at Le Bonheur de vivre. Two things were clarified. Not just that modern artists often turned away from the detail of the world in order to revel in the work of …

Author

T. J. Clark

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.299-369

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00048.009

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Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956Abstract expressionism--United StatesPainting, American--20th centuryArt criticism--United States--20th centuryGreenberg, Clement, 1909-1994Fried, MichaelKrasner, Lee, 1908-1984Betty Parsons Gallery

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