American Letters, 1927-1947: 1927-1947

Pollock, Jackson

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-01-28
  • 售價: $930
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 252
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0745654029
  • ISBN-13: 9780745654027
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商品描述

Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his "dripping" painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often apart, whether they were traveling for work or for studies, sons and parents kept in close touch through their regular exchange of letters. Their correspondence offers an invaluable insight into the formation of one of America's most influential artists, but it also draws a unique portrait of America itself between two momentous events in its history: the Great Depression and World War II.

These letters - many of which are published for the first time in this volume - show that the Pollock brothers took a keen and early interest in art and politics. Their interest in painting was stimulated in part by Thomas Hart Benton, then a teacher at the Art Students League in New York, whose passion and commitment was to influence them profoundly. Jackson followed his oldest brother Charles to New York to study with Benton. While Charles subscribed to many of his mentor's left-wing beliefs and remained determined to bring art and social justice together, Jackson was far less committed to this ideal - he enjoyed life and traveled across America, hitting the open road and jumping from train to train, finding himself thrown out of school and even ending up in prison for a day, prodded on by his pronounced mystical leanings to search for his own way to express his artistic intuitions.

Through this vivid, lively and often moving correspondence from an atypical yet very American family, we catch a novel glimpse of Jackson Pollock the man, as well as of the various artistic schools and debates that established what has now become modern art.

This remarkable volume will be enjoyed by anyone interested in Jackson Pollock and modern art, as well as anyone interested in twentieth-century America. The volume includes original works of art by Charles Pollock and an Introduction by Michael Leja, an expert on Abstract Expressionism and the work of Jackson Pollock.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

傑克森·波洛克(Jackson Pollock),這位將以「滴畫」技術徹底改變二十世紀藝術的美國藝術家,成長於1920年代末至1940年代末,為美國西部五兄弟中的最小者。儘管他們經常分開,無論是因工作還是學習而旅行,父母與兒子們透過定期的書信交流保持著密切的聯繫。他們的通信提供了對這位美國最具影響力藝術家之一形成過程的寶貴洞見,同時也描繪了美國在歷史上兩個重大事件之間的獨特畫面:大蕭條與第二次世界大戰。

這些信件——其中許多在本書中首次出版——顯示波洛克兄弟對藝術和政治有著敏銳而早期的興趣。他們對繪畫的興趣部分受到當時在紐約藝術學生聯盟任教的托馬斯·哈特·本頓(Thomas Hart Benton)的激勵,他的熱情和承諾對他們產生了深遠的影響。傑克森跟隨他的哥哥查爾斯(Charles)前往紐約向本頓學習。查爾斯認同他導師的許多左翼信念,並堅定地希望將藝術與社會正義結合起來,而傑克森對這一理想的承諾則要少得多——他享受生活,穿越美國,駛上開放的公路,跳上火車,甚至因為他的神秘傾向而被學校開除,最終還在監獄裡待了一天,尋找表達自己藝術直覺的方式。

透過這些生動、活潑且常常感人的通信,我們得以窺見傑克森·波洛克這個人,以及建立現代藝術的各種藝術流派和辯論。

這本非凡的書籍將吸引任何對傑克森·波洛克和現代藝術感興趣的人,以及對二十世紀美國感興趣的人。本書還包括查爾斯·波洛克的原創藝術作品,以及抽象表現主義和傑克森·波洛克作品專家邁克爾·雷賈(Michael Leja)的導言。

作者簡介

Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

保羅·傑克森·波洛克(Paul Jackson Pollock)是一位美國畫家,也是抽象表現主義運動中的重要人物。他以獨特的滴畫風格而聞名。在他的一生中,波洛克享有相當的名聲和惡名;他是他那一代的重要藝術家。