The mind of the artist : personality and the drive to create /
"How does one get to be an artist? How does one get to be anything at all? It's not as if we come into the world with pre-set destinies, or do we? and if we do, what's actually baked in, what's learned, what's a product of circumstance? Jackson Pollock started by painting Ju...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Summary: | "How does one get to be an artist? How does one get to be anything at all? It's not as if we come into the world with pre-set destinies, or do we? and if we do, what's actually baked in, what's learned, what's a product of circumstance? Jackson Pollock started by painting Jungian archetypes in what are called his psychoanalytic drawings. He moved on to Picassoesque figurative work, as in "Guardians of the Secret" and "Moon Woman Cuts the Circle." Then, one average day, he threw a canvas on the floor. He became, miraculously, Jack the Dripper. What he'd done was so unforeseen, so puzzling, legend has it he turned to his partner Lee Krasner (herself a painter) and asked, "Is this art?""-- |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197611098 0197611095 |