This book gave a detailed background of Pollock's life and death with brief writings on some of his works
Amelia Jones, Body Art, Performing the Subject pg 53 onwards
pollock, hans namuth film/photography
essay 'The Legend of Pollock' - Kaprow
Significant images, presented art as performance "shift in conception and enactment of this subject and his relationship both to the work and to the viewer" pg 53
"overtly and theatrically performing the act of painting"
"photographs overwhelm the layout of the article"
"these images of Pollock in the act of painting presented art as performance" 53
supported by Rosenberg - American Action Painters "painting as an act rather than a final object, these photographs, and the way in which they have been used and reworked within discourses about Pollock in relation to contemporary art, exemplify the speaking of a new mode of thinking not only about "art" as an expression of individual subjects, but about subjectivity itself." 55
"philosophical shift in conceptions of artistic subjecivity" 55
"Kaprow's articulation of Pollock clearly also aligns him with the kind of performative, open-ended and processual conception of art making that we now accosiate with practices critical of modrnist formalism" pg 56
diaristic gesture
confronted, sucked in, spectorial participation
"The conflcts that emerge in discourses about pollock thus expose contradictions deep within modernism, contradiction that eventually ruptured modernism from within, producing a revised conception of the artist and the subject in general." 57
"dramatic shift in the conception of artistic practice, meaning, and subjectivity itself in the post-1960 period." 58
"While the accounts of Pollock's performativity(as interpreted by younger artists such as Kaprow) may tempt us to think that we have found the "origins" of the performative critique of the modernist artistas divinely inspired and unified origin of works of art, the performative body of the artist did not emerge in an original and unprecedented way"
"it is only in the period after 1960 or so that performativity becomes the dominant mode in the articulation of the self" 61
"pollock merged with his painting in a "pure hamony" of disembodied creation." pg 74
"Klein directly negotiated the Pollockian trope of the ejaculatory genius fliinging paint agressively onto the "resistant", horizontal plane of the canvas" 86
"Klein replaced Pollock's brushes with women's bodies, Pollock's house paint with patented "YKB" (Yves Klein Blue) paint, Pollock's supposedly solitary studio [..] with a gallery full of well-dressed spectators, the silence of Pollock's potographic performance with a string orchestra playing Klein's "Monotone Symphony", Pollock's workers' garb with aristocratic tuxedo and white tie."86
"shifted the terms of the Pollockian performative toward the overtly theatrical, the aristorcratic, the ironice" 56
insited upon the act of painting and viewing as constitutive of the piece itself
"Klein's work opens up the processual aspect of making and viewing art" 87
"Klein's adoption of formal dress served to distinguish him from the highly invested emotionalism of 1950s abstract painting and to ironicize the the notion of the painter as worker/genius" 88
Michael Dufrenne, The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience (1953)
rethinking definition of art "In truth, all the arts require a performance: the painter executes or performs a portrait [...] Creation is performance."pg 30
Catherine Wood, A bigger Splash: Painting after Performance
"Pollock's paintings have, arguably, come to be seen, just as Kaprow interpreted them, as a prompt for some of the earliest performance happenings: literal tracks of a man's movement across a canvas within a traceable period of time." , Page 13
https://uima.uiowa.edu/collections/american-art-1900-1980/jackson-pollock/mural/
When Pollock painted Mural, he redefined not only the limits of his own abilities but also the possibilities of painting.
Jackson Pollock, Leonhard Emmerling
"The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces... the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating" - pollock
http://www.artnews.com/2007/11/01/top-ten-artnews-stories-capturing-the-artist-in-action/
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