Picturing Pollock: Photography’s Challenge to the Historiography of Abstract Expressionism

In the summer and fall of 1950, photographers Rudy Burckhardt and Hans Namuth documented Jackson Pollock in his studio as he was creating what have become his iconic Abstract Expressionist paintings. The photographs quickly dominated the critical discourse of the new painting and initiated a crisis...

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Main Author: Peter R. Kalb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/kalb.pdf