Pollock's modernism / Michael Schreyach.

9780300223262 (hardcover)
0300223269 (hardcover)

New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, 2017.

English

xiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ND237.P73 S37 2017

759.13

Pollock's Modernism' provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912?1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's career - including Mural (1943), Cathedral (1947), Number 1A, 1948, One: Number 31, 1950, and Portrait and a Dream (1953), Michael Schreyach argues that Pollock's achievement is best understood by attending to how, technically and formally, he instituted certain modes of pictorial address and structures of beholding in his paintings. From this perspective, Pollock is shown to be an artist who transformed the means by which the phenomenological interdependence of sensation and cognition in our embodied experience could be represented.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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