Tom and Jack : the intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock / Henry Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Henry, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975.

Benton, Thomas Hart.

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956.

Pollock, Jackson.

Painters--United States--Biography.

Painters.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Contents:

Part 1 The Multi-Million-Dollar Drips 1

1 Against the Cold 3

2 The Pollock in My Office 15

Part 2 Benton and the Pollock Boys 19

3 The Kid from Cody 21

4 How to Make an Abstract Painting 54

Part 3 The Formula 63

5 Mixed Up with Modern Art 65

6 The Cross-dresser 76

7 Astonishing the French 95

Part 4 The Other Wright Brothers 101

8 Band of Brothers 103

9 Lost in Translation 110

Part 5 The Painter of America 129

10 A Modernist in New York 131

11 A Wall to Paint 144

Part 6 Pollock in the Thirties 157

12 The Happiest Time 159

Part 7 Going Too Far 177

13 Negroes in the Library 179

14 Fame and Flight 193

15 Jack Falls Apart 197

Part 8 Breaking the Ice 209

16 A Museum for Modern Art 211

17 The Man with Many Lives 215

18 The Influence of Jung 232

19 A Collision 239

20 The General 247

21 Poor Little Rich Girl 255

22 The Flight from New York 280

Part 9 Heroic Gestures 287

23 The Hollow and the Bump 289

24 Fame 333

Part 10 The End of the Game 343

25 “I Used to Fuck Rita Benton” 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1596914203

9781596914209

OCLC:

317288602