The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Post-War American Art - Hardcover

Ratcliff, Carter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374153817 ISBN 13: 9780374153816

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Synopsis

Explores the history of modern American painting through the career and influence of Jackson Pollock

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Review:

Jackson Pollock's paintings capture the essence of movement and challenge typical notions of representation. The Fate of a Gesture argues that Pollock's work overshadowed and directed the course of postwar American Painting. Not to be confused with a survey of this era in art history, Ratcliff deals specifically with the boundless and infinite quality of the influential gesture as a symbol of America itself. Avoiding a common aggrandizement of the artist, Ratcliff's thought-provoking text allows readers to draw conclusions of their own.

About the Author:

Carter Ratcliff is an award-winning art critic who has published several books on diverse American artists, including Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Pat Steir, and Robert Longo. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Art Critics grant, and the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College Art Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0374153817
• ISBN 13: 9780374153816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352