LEADER 03484nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910779097503321 005 20230802004427.0 010 $a1-283-38223-7 010 $a9786613382238 010 $a0-300-16337-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300163377 035 $a(CKB)2550000000082311 035 $a(EBL)3420775 035 $a(OCoLC)923597142 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000599368 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428062 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599368 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596294 035 $a(PQKB)11493675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420775 035 $a(DE-B1597)486063 035 $a(OCoLC)774395322 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300163377 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10523684 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL338223 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000082311 100 $a20110516d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJackson Pollock$b[electronic resource] /$fEvelyn Toynton 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 225 1 $aIcons of America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-16325-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One --$tChapter Two --$tChapter Three --$tChapter Four --$tChapter Five --$tChapter Six --$tChapter Seven --$tChapter Eight --$tChapter Nine --$tChapter Ten --$tChapter Eleven --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aJackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire-the role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950's America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash, Pollock's hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring symbol of the tormented artist-our American van Gogh. In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollock's itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that, ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his work and that continue to do so. Pollock's paintings captured the sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style. 410 0$aIcons of America. 606 $aArt and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aArt and society$xHistory 676 $a759.13 700 $aToynton$b Evelyn$f1950-$01570829 701 $aPollock$b Jackson$f1912-1956.$037142 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779097503321 996 $aJackson Pollock$93844750 997 $aUNINA