JACKSON POLLOCK
Scope|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade
Publications|Videos|Web Sites
Scope: Jackson Pollock represents The New York School of the 1940’s and the technique of action painting. Action painting is a technique whereby the artists actually pours the paint on the canvas from all four sides. Pollock gained international prominence with this form of Abstract Expressionism which broke free from European influences.
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF N6490.C6567 Contemporary Artists
REF N31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art
REF N6512.C854 Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists
REF N5300.I45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists
REF N 33.P74 2000 The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists of the 20th Century
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Cernuschi, Calude. Jackson Pollock, “
Psychoanalytic” Drawings. Durham: Duke
University Press, 1992.
Frank, Elizabeth. Jackson
Pollock. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.
Landau, Ellen G. Jackson
Pollock. New York: Abrams, 1989.
Naifeh, Steven W. Jackson Pollock:
An American Saga. New York: Crown Publishers,
1989.
Varnedoe, Kirk. Jackson
Pollock. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
PERIODICALS,
JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Open Access Journals in
Arts & Architecture
Open Access Journals in
History of Arts
Open Access Journals in
Visual Arts
VIDEOS
Pollock DVD 28
WEB SITES
http://www.the-artists.org
Art History Network
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH20thcentury.html#Later20century
Art Access: The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/pages/MOD_8.shtml
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Updated
08/24/2007
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