Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock In true Oedipal fashion, Pollock even fell in love with Benton's wife. The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of
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| Title | : | Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (204 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596914203 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-11-24 |
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Editorial : From Booklist *Starred Review* Adams, author of Eakins Revisited (2005), practices art history with a novelist’s narrative skills and psychological acuity, a sleuth’s instincts, a passion for aesthetic and technical explications, and a gift for sea change interpretations. In this utterly absorbing, carefully reasoned inquiry into the profound relationship between two painters, one reviled, the other worshiped, Adams reclaims the wrongfully maligned Thomas Hart Benton and recalibrates our perception of Jackson Pollock and his masterpieces. Benton hid his true cultured self behind the mask of a “semi-literate hillbilly,” just as his “technical virtuosity” is concealed within his controversial murals. An exemplary teacher as well as a trailblazing artist, Benton was mentor and father figure to Pollock. “It is no exaggeration,” writes Adams, “to say that Benton created Pollock as an artist.” Adams cracks the secret of Benton&rsquo
A groundbreaking portrait of the intense personal and artistic relationship between Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, revealing how their friendship changed American art. The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock. In true Oedipal fashion, Pollock even fell in love with Benton's wife. Pollock later broke away from his mentor artistically, rocketing to superstardom with his stunning drip compositions. But he never lost touch with Benton or his ideasin fact, his breakthrough abstractions reveal a strong debt to Benton's teachings. I n an epic story that ranges from the cafés and salons of Gertrude Stein's Pari
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