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- Title
Jackson Pollock's Post-Ritual Performance: Memories Arrested in Space.
- Authors
Soussloff, Catherine M.
- Abstract
Uneasy that Jackson Pollock's paintings indicate a profound involvement with myth and that his dedication to the curative potential of psychoanalysis indicate a sustained engagement with his infantile fantasies and early family history, art historians have not agreed on how to interpret Pollock's paintings. There are two major trends: Pollock's "opticality" and the meaning of the nonrepresentational and representational marks found in them. Soussloff seeks a third way—the meaning of myth, ritual, and performance in Pollock's abstractions.
- Subjects
POLLOCK, Jackson, 1912-1956; ARTISTS; PAINTING; ART; LEVI-Strauss, Claude, 1908-2009
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2004, Vol 48, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1162/105420404772990673