Jackson Pollock: A Biography

By Deborah Solomon

Book Overview

Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions of Pollock's paintings, the book looks into the passions, conflicts, relationships, and influences of the artist, Jackson Pollock, widely considered the finest American painter of the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815411820
• ISBN13: 9780815411826
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Pollock info

I liked this book. I've read a lot about Pollock, but this book had more info about his family and early years than I've ever seen. It made him a lot more understandable as a person so that I could see him as more than a raging alcoholic. It also refutes some of the Pollock myths such as his peeing in Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace at a party. This is a real bio, not just an artist's bio.

A most critical and detail-filled look

Jackson Pollock is the fascinating and well crafted biography of a truly remarkable and influential American painter who held himself to the most demanding standards. Biographer Deborah Solomon interviewed more than two hundred people to reconstruct Pollock's brilliant yet contrary and sometimes self-destructive life. A most critical and detail-filled look at a very complicated artist and a highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history and biography collections.