| Description |
178 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Director's preface / Nancy Netzer -- Introduction / Claude Cernuschi and Ellen G. Landau -- Action/re-action : the artistic friendship of Herbert Matter and Jackson Pollock / Ellen G. Landau -- Jackson Pollock's vitalism : Herbert Matter and the Vitalist tradition / Jonathan D. Katz -- Cutting Pollock down to size : the boundaries of the poured technique / Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Herczynski -- Abstract expressionism and fractal geometry / Claude Cernuschi, Andrzej Herczynski, and David Martin -- Scientific examination of the paint on nine Matter paintings / Richard Newman and Michele Derrick -- Analyzing Jackson Pollock : scientific methods and the study of the Matter paintings / Nicholas Eastaugh -- What it says on the tin : a preliminary study of the set of paint cans and the floor in the Pollock-Krasner studio / Nicholas Eastaugh and Bhavini Gorsia -- Fingerprinting Jackson Pollock? / Peter Paul Biro -- Appendix 1 : notes on conservation of the Matter paintings -- Appendix 2 : chronology of the relationship of the Matters and Pollocks / prepared with the assistance of Nancy Cohen, Jeffrey Head, and Michael R. Weil, Jr |
| Notes |
Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Sept. 1-Dec. 9, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 -- Exhibitions.
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Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984 -- Exhibitions.
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Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984.
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Matter, Mercedes, 1913-2001.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956.
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Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984.
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Landau, Ellen G.
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Cernuschi, Claude, 1961-
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McMullen Museum of Art.
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| LC no. |
2007934017 |
| ISBN |
9781892850133 |
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1892850133 |
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