Pollock Matters / edited by Ellen G. Landau & Claude Cernuschi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956.

Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.

Landau, Ellen G.

Cernuschi, Claude, 1961-

McMullen Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956--Exhibitions.

Pollock, Jackson.

Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984--Exhibitions.

Matter, Herbert.

Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984.

Krasner, Lee.

Matter, Mercedes, 1913-2001.

Matter, Mercedes.

Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

178 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College ; [Chicago] : distributed by the University of Chicago Press, [2007]

Contents:

Director's preface / Nancy Netzer

Introduction / Claude Cernuschi and Ellen G. Landau

Action/re-action: the artistic friendship of Herbert Matter and Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau

Jackson Pollock's vitalism: Herbert Matter and the Vitalist tradition / Jonathan D. Katz

Cutting Pollock down to size: the boundaries of the poured technique / Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Herczynski

Abstract expressionism and fractal geometry / Claude Cernuschi, Andrzej Herczynski, and David Martin

Scientific examination of the paint on nine Matter paintings / Richard Newman and Michele Derrick

Analyzing Jackson Pollock: scientific methods and the study of the Matter paintings / Nicholas Eastaugh

What it says on the tin: a preliminary study of the set of paint cans and the floor in the Pollock-Krasner studio / Nicholas Eastaugh and Bhavini Gorsia

Fingerprinting Jackson Pollock? / Peter Paul Biro.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Sept. 1-Dec. 9, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1892850133

9781892850133

OCLC:

173406768