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Tom and Jack : the intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock / Henry Adams.
- Title
- Tom and Jack : the intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock / Henry Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Henry, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ND237.B47 A85 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 405 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- A study of the influences, especially that of Thomas Hart Benton, which culminated in the great abstract, drip paintings by Jackson Pollock.
- Alternative Title
- Intertwined lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The multi-million-dollar drips. Against the cold ; The Pollock in my office -- Benton and the Pollock boys. The kid from Cody ; How to make an abstract painting -- The formula. Mixed up with modern art ; The cross-dresser ; Astonishing the French -- The other Wright brothers. Band of brothers ; Lost in translation -- The painter of America. A Modernist in New York ; A wall to paint -- Pollock in the Thirties. The happiest time -- Going too far. Negroes in the library ; Fame and flight ; Jack falls apart -- Breaking the ice. A museum for modern art ; The man with many lives ; The influence of Jung ;A collision ; The General ; Poor little rich girl ; The flight from New York -- Heroic gestures. The hollow and the bump ; Fame -- The end of the game. "I used to fuck Rita Benton" -- Appendix 1. Memories of Macdonald-Wright -- Appendix 2. John Dracopoli, 1890-1975.
- ISBN
- 1596914203
- 9781596914209 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009012309
- OCLC
- 317288602
- SCSB-10480050
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library