03484nam 2200625Ia 450 991077909750332120230802004427.01-283-38223-797866133822380-300-16337-110.12987/9780300163377(CKB)2550000000082311(EBL)3420775(OCoLC)923597142(SSID)ssj0000599368(PQKBManifestationID)11428062(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599368(PQKBWorkID)10596294(PQKB)11493675(MiAaPQ)EBC3420775(DE-B1597)486063(OCoLC)774395322(DE-B1597)9780300163377(Au-PeEL)EBL3420775(CaPaEBR)ebr10523684(CaONFJC)MIL338223(EXLCZ)99255000000008231120110516d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJackson Pollock[electronic resource] /Evelyn ToyntonNew Haven Yale University Pressc20121 online resource (160 p.)Icons of AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-16325-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter One --Chapter Two --Chapter Three --Chapter Four --Chapter Five --Chapter Six --Chapter Seven --Chapter Eight --Chapter Nine --Chapter Ten --Chapter Eleven --Acknowledgments --Notes --Bibliography --IndexJackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire-the role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950's America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash, Pollock's hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring symbol of the tormented artist-our American van Gogh. In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollock's itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that, ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his work and that continue to do so. Pollock's paintings captured the sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style.Icons of America.Art and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArt and societyHistory759.13Toynton Evelyn1950-1570829Pollock Jackson1912-1956.37142MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779097503321Jackson Pollock3844750UNINA