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The fate of a gesture : Jackson Pollock and postwar American art

Carter Ratcliff (Author)
Flinging his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It was the fate of Pollock's gesture, which reflected Amenca's largest, most optimistic ideas of itself, to be mimicked, modified, and denied by artists of immense stature, among them Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Robert Smithson

Print Book, English, 1996
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1996