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...catch painters in the act of making art. For his 1950 documentary, Visit to Picasso, Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish master to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked his friend Lucio Fontana, famous for slashing through large monochrome canvases, for a chance to record his unusual technique for posterity...
Marvin recalled presenting Frondel with a piece of wood streaked with paint, on which she had constructed a molecular model. Frondel, an art collector, had the wood framed and hung it in his home, convincing his wife that it was a work by Jackson Pollock...
Hope is an artist who does not fully arrive at herself until she has buried her first two husbands, both of them artists more famous than she, who required a lot of care and feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
Seek My Face lets Updike imagine his way into the enigmas of that great moment in the 1950s when American art conquered the world. By way of Hope's memories, he lights upon Pollock's contemporaries--Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman--the anointed gladiators of the American avant-garde. The names are changed, but their vanities and treacheries and barroom intellectual brawls are pretty much as we know them. As for Hope, she resembles Pollock's actual wife, the steadfast Lee Krasner, though not in every detail, especially after McCoy's death, when she marries...
Phoebe M. Lithgow ’04 will serve as president, Andrew T.B. Ujifusa ’04 as editor-in-chief, Rishikesh P. Dalal ’04 as publisher and Joseph L. Bracamontes ’04 as executive editor. Matthew J. Pollock ’04 will serve as director of business affairs...