ANFAM DAVID

(P/B) ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

(H/B) JACKSON POLLOCK'S MURAL
Jackson Pollock's Mural, created early in his career in 1943, is a vast panorama spanning a 6-metre-long canvas - the largest painting he ever made. Mural marked a watershed for Pollock: a presentiment of the epic scale, complexity, energy and ambition of the work ahead. This monumental painting is one of the most influential yet little-seen works of the last century. This book sheds new light on its place in the artist's meteoric career and the evolution of modern American art. David Anfam considers the many influences on Pollock that led...
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(H/B) ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
This important publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, seeks to redress the balance and re-evaluate the movement, recognising its complex and fluid reality, and encompassing sculptors such as David Smith and photographers such as Aaron Siskind as well as some of the most famous painters of the twentieth century, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. In 1946 the art critic Robert Coates, writing in The New Yorker, first used the term 'Abstract Expres...
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