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Jackson Pollock: "psychoanalytic" drawings

By: Material type: TextTextDurham and London (in assoc. with Duke University Museum of Art) Duke University Press c1992Edition: 1992 edDescription: 143p.; ill.; bibliog. notesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822312743
Subject(s): Abstract: 'Perhaps no aspect of Jackson Pollock's oeuvre has been more misunderstood than the sixty-nine drawings and one gouache Pollock presented to his psychoanalyst during psychotherapy sessions in 1939-40....they remained hidden iin the doctor's files for almost three decades. Their publication in 1970...catapulted the drawings into the public eye, led to a controversial lawsuit by Pollock's widow, Lee Krasner, and generated a spate of articles that sought to interpret the drawings as complex Jungian iconography or of Pollock's supposed mental disorder....'
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Foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta.

'Perhaps no aspect of Jackson Pollock's oeuvre has been more misunderstood than the sixty-nine drawings and one gouache Pollock presented to his psychoanalyst during psychotherapy sessions in 1939-40....they remained hidden iin the doctor's files for almost three decades. Their publication in 1970...catapulted the drawings into the public eye, led to a controversial lawsuit by Pollock's widow, Lee Krasner, and generated a spate of articles that sought to interpret the drawings as complex Jungian iconography or of Pollock's supposed mental disorder....'

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