Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...
...pursue his passion, Arthur Goodhart decided to continue his studies at Cambridge University. There he did so well that Cambridge later asked him to stay on as a don. By 1926 he had succeeded Sir Frederick Pollock as editor of the English Law Quarterly Review. Finally in 1930, Oxford invited him to become a professor at University College...
Since then he has become the most extraordinary Yank Oxford has ever had -a sort of one-man Anglo-American alliance, whose interests have flitted back & forth across the Atlantic like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...
Hell-for-leather abstractionists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning have kept Manhattan art circles spinning all season. Their swirls, blobs and blizzards of paint, most of them too haphazard for analytical discussion, drew cheers and jeers, started scores of cocktail-party tiffs...
...interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...