Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John W. Pollock, one of four associate directors of OCS-OCL, yesterday said Leape was a good choice because she "understands students and administration...
Ginn resigned as director on August 31 to assume a similar position at Smith College. No acting director was appointed in the interim; Pollock said the office ran smoothly under the joint control of the associate directors...
Nearly everyone who was concerned with American abstract expressionism-critics, curators, the artists themselves-agreed on one thing: the movement, like its godparent, surrealism, was all about freedom. In Jackson Pollock's drips lay written the unfettered play of the mind, the swift "existential" decisions of the hand. Because it incarnated liberty, some thought, abstract expressionism transcended style. This cherished notion was very much a part of its time, a fixture of the '50s, like James Dean, the beats or the vogue for Camusian outsiders. In later years, it was more honored in the breach than...
Nearly all the artists of the New York School, beginning with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, were to some extent liberated and inspired by his example. The measure of his work can be taken from an exhibition now on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City...
...that animal, not as an animal, but the power of its forms." Nevelson was drawn to what was mythic and magical in sculpture just as a yearning for the primitive, the instinctively efficacious, was diffused throughout the American avant-garde in the 1940s. It was the root of Jackson Pollock's and Mark Rothko's early work and became an essential part of abstract expressionism in general, as it was of dance through the influence of Martha Graham...