Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, and his drunken rages, has ceased to be regarded as a guru among his fellow artists. A more sophisticated public is no longer shocked by the fact that he dribbled and threw paint at his monumental canvases instead of applying it with a brush. For those accustomed to the bright glow of neon, even his colors seem calm. In short, Pollock has become something that many artists dread more...
...only a handful of his paintings hung in museums; today, there are more than 30, and their prices have escalated some 1,500% (a major drip painting by Pollock now brings upwards of $100,000). Matters have even reached the stage where, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week opened an immense Pollock retrospective, some critics decided that it was high time to begin to debunk the "myth" of his achievement. Sniffed the New York Times's Hilton Kramer: "An interesting artist of, say, the third class. It is only the poverty of our own artistic...
...Adams House and New York City, Book Editor; Jeffrey C. Alexander '69 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, Assistant Features Editor; Richard R. Edmonds '69 of Lowell House and Wilmette. Ill., Assistant Features Editor; David L. Friedman '69 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, Advertising Manager; Beth L. Pollock '68 of Henry House and Chicago, Office Manager...
...PAUL A. POLLOCK Lowell, Mass...
Reuther's seat on the council went to William Pollock of the Textile Workers Union, but another place might be vacated if Reuther wanted it. Meany remarked dispassionately that the U.A.W. chief should register his complaints through "appropriate channels" within the A.F.L.-C.l.O., where they would get a fair hearing. Asked if that constituted leaving the door ajar for Reuther's return to the fold, George said: "I would accept it as that...