TY - GEN T1 - Jackson Pollock T2 - Icons of America. A1 - Toynton, Evelyn, 1950- A2 - Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 LA - English PP - New Haven Conn. PB - Yale University Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn774395322 AB - Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire -the role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950s America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash, Pollock's hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring symbol of the tormented artist-our American van Gogh. In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollock's itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that, ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his work and that continue to do so. Pollock's paintings captured the sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style. OP - 143 CN - N6537.P57 T69 2012eb SN - 9780300163377 SN - 0300163371 SN - 1283382237 SN - 9781283382236 SN - 9780300163254 SN - 0300163258 SN - 9780300192506 (pbk.) SN - 0300192509 (pbk.) KW - Pollock, Jackson, : 1912-1956 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Pollock, Jackson, : 1912-1956 KW - Art and society : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Art et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - ART : History : General. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Artists, Architects, Photographers. KW - Art and society KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -