Jackson Pollock's Mural by David Anfam

Jackson Pollock's Mural by David Anfam

Jackson Pollock’s Mural , created early in his career in 1943, is a vast panorama spanning a 6-metre-long canvas – the largest painting he ever made. Mural marked a watershed for Pollock: a presentiment of the epic scale, complexity, energy and ambition of the work ahead. David Anfam considers the manifold influences on Pollock that led to this landmark achievement – including the context of the American West, his hitherto little-known relationship with Clyfford Still and the importance of wartime action photography. He also traces the explosive magnetism Mural exerted over the emergent Abstract Expressionists and its legacy for painters and sculptors as diverse as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, Richard Serra and Brice Marden. Indeed, the work’s wider impact on post-war American art is comparable to that of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon on European modernism in the first half of the twentieth century

'Sumptuously illustrated … offers a thorough art historical account of 'Mural', its context, sources and impact' - State Magazine
'Vibrant … will almost certainly remain the most assured and sympathetic guide to the painting from conception to legacy' - The Art Newspaper

David Anfam is a writer, curator and leading authority on modern American art. He is the Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver and the Director of its Research Center. His publications include Abstract Expressionism (1990), the catalogue raisonné Mark Rothko: Works on Canvas (1998), which won the Mitchell prize in 2000, as well as studies on Anish Kapoor, Edward Kienholz and Wayne Thiebaud.

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ISBN 13	9780500239346
ISBN 10	0500239347
Title	Jackson Pollock's Mural
Author	David Anfam
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published	2015-04-13
Number of pages	146
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