Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews

by Karmel, Pepe; Karmel, Pepe; Varnedoe, Kirk; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N. Y.)

• ISBN13: 9780810962125
• ISBN10: 0810962128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc

Summary

Assembled by one of the curators of the museum's Pollock retrospective, this anthology surveys five decades of critical response to Pollock, bringing together essential (and hard-to-find) texts from newspapers, journals, and catalogues. It includes all of Pollock's statements about his art as well as interviews with his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, providing firsthand testimony about his goals and methods.

Reviews of Pollock's early exhibitions reveal the intense interest his work aroused even before he arrived at his famous technique of "dripping" paint. Later articles trace the growth of Pollock's myth after his death in 1956 and document the continuing debate over psychological and mythological interpretations of Pollock's work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Artist's Statements and Interviews
Jackson Pollock: A Questionnaire	p. 15
Application for Guggenheim Fellowship, 1947	p. 17
My Painting	p. 17
Unframed Space	p. 18
Interview with William Wright, The Springs, Long Island, New York, late 1950, broadcast on radio station WERI, Westerly, Rhode Island, 1951	p. 20
Handwritten statements, undated	p. 24
Interviews with Lee Krasner
Jackson Pollock: An Interview with Lee Krasner	p. 25
Who Was Jackson Pollock?	p. 30
An Interview with Lee Krasner Pollock	p. 35
Jackson Pollock at Work: An Interview with Lee Krasner	p. 39
Articles and Reviews
Art: Briefer Mention	p. 49
Fifty-Seventh Street in Review	p. 50
The Passing Shows: Jackson Pollock	p. 50
The Art Galleries: Situation Well in Hand	p. 50
Art	p. 51
Among the New Exhibitions	p. 52
The Passing Shows: Jackson Pollock	p. 52
Art	p. 52
Jackson Pollock	p. 53
By the Shores of Virtuosity	p. 55
Reviews and Previews: Jackson Pollock	p. 55
Reviews and Previews: Jackson Pollock	p. 56
Art	p. 56
Automatic Pollock	p. 58
The Art Galleries: Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock	p. 58
Art	p. 59
Reviews and Previews: Jackson Pollock	p. 60
Among the New Shows: Jackson Pollock	p. 61
Pollock Hieroglyphics	p. 61
This Week in Art	p. 62
Art	p. 62
Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?	p. 63
Jackson Pollock	p. 65
Jackson Pollock: The Infinite Labyrinth	p. 65
A Short Statement on the Painting of Jackson Pollock	p. 68
Chaos, Damn It!	p. 70
Letter to the Editor	p. 71
The Art Galleries: Extremists	p. 72
Reviews and Previews: Jackson Pollock	p. 74
Pollock Paints a Picture	p. 74
Jackson Pollock	p. 79
Jackson Pollock's New Style	p. 80
Month in Review: Fifteen Years of Jackson Pollock	p. 81
The Legacy of Jackson Pollock	p. 84
The Search for Jackson Pollock	p. 90
Jackson Pollock	p. 97
Jackson Pollock: The Hollow and the Bump	p. 104
Jackson Pollock: 'Inspiration, Vision, Intuitive Decision,'	p. 110
Jackson Pollock	p. 114
Jackson Pollock and the Modern Tradition	p. 118
Jackson Pollock's Drawings	p. 176
Another Side of Jackson Pollock	p. 180
Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton	p. 192
Jackson Pollock's 'The Moon Woman Cuts the Circle,'	p. 202
Pollock as Jungian Illustrator: The Limits of Psychological Criticism	p. 220
Pollock and Krasner: Script and Postscript	p. 262
Acknowledgments	p. 281
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