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The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
by Ratcliff, Carter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374153817
- ISBN 13
- 9780374153816
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. xiii, 352 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Flinging his colors onto the canvas, pouring and dripping his paints in a quintessentially American gesture, Jackson Pollock redefined the art of painting. It was the fate of Pollock's gesture to be mimicked, modified, and denied by artists of immense stature. Drawing from twenty years of experience as an art critic in New York, Carter Ratcliff maps the Manhattan art world, revisiting the world of studios, galleries and artist's bars where these personalities met and clashed. Over the story looms the monumental and tragic figure of Pollock, the measure of all who have felt compelled to challenge him." - Publisher. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013401
- Title
- The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
- Author
- Ratcliff, Carter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0374153817
- ISBN 13
- 9780374153816
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Movements / Abstraction; Movements / Abstract Expressionism;
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