Jackson Pollock Bibliography: DissertationsBoth M.A. and Ph.D. theses whose main subject is the work of Pollock are listed here. how to search
Bryant, Linda A. "Creativity and Trauma: An Analysis of the Psychoanalytic Drawings of Jackson Pollock in Relation to Loss and Trauma in the Childhoods of Artists, Writers, Musicians and Politicians." Master’s thesis, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, 1995.
Casto, Donnelly Lee. "Jackson Pollock: A Biographical Study of the Man and a Critical Evaluation of His Work." Master’s thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1964.
Cook, Deanna. "Cold War Politics, Congressman George Dondero, and Jackson Pollock." Master’s thesis, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1996.
Fanning, Leesa K. "Abstract Expressionism and the Body: Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko)." Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1998.
Gibson, Ann Eden. "Theory Undeclared: Avant-Garde Magazines as a Guide to Abstract Expressionist Images and Ideas." Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1984.
Healey, Jane Frances. "Painting Pollock: The Creation of a Cultural Hero in Post-World War II America." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1991.
Hoene, Anne. "The Origins of Jackson Pollock’s Style." Master’s thesis, New York University, 1967.
Ives, Suzanne M. "Kerouac, Burroughs, Pollock and de Kooning: A Stylistic Comparison," Master’s thesis, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1984.
Johannes, Christa Erika. Relationships Between Some Abstract Expressionist Painting and Samuel Beckett’s Writing. Ph.D. diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1978.
Jones, Janet Alice. "Clement Greenberg: His Critical and Personal Relationships with Jackson Pollock and Selected Post Painterly Abstractionists." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1988.
Lader, Melvin Paul. "Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century: The Surrealist Milieu and the American Avant-Garde, 1942–1947." Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1981.
Landau, Ellen G. "Lee Krasner: A Study of Her Early Career 1926–1949." Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1981.
Langhorne, Elizabeth Lawrence. A Jungian Interpretation of Jackson Pollock’s Art through 1946. Ph.D. diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1979.
Larsen, Roger Allen. "Beyond the Drip: Jackson Pollock and the Demons within (Painting)." Master’s thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1997.
Leja, Michael Joseph. "Art for Modern Man: New York School Painting and American Culture in the 1940s." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1988.
Nakama, Yuko. "The Organic Subject in the Drip Painting of Jackson Pollock." Abstract for dissertation on Pollock. Presented at the Congress of the Japan Art History Society in May 1988. Published in Machikaneyama Ronso, Osaka University (December 1988).
Negri, Patrick. "Signs of Being: A Study of the Religious Significance of the Art of Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko (Abstract Expressionism)." Th.D. thesis, Graduate Theological Union, 1990.
O’Connor, Francis V. "The Genesis of Jackson Pollock: 1912 to 1943." Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1965.
Polcari, Stephen. "The Intellectual Roots of Abstract Expressionism." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Rinne, Henry Q. "Concepts of Time and Space in Selected Works of Jazz Improvisation and Painting (Time Concepts, Space Concepts)." Ph.D. diss., Ohio University, Athens, 1991.
Rohn, Matthew L. Visual Dynamics in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions. Ph.D. diss. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987.
Rubin, Joan Gassisi. "Frederic Church, Jackson Pollock, and Christo: Three Visions of the American Landscape." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1983.
Rushing, W. Jackson. "The Influence of American Indian Art on Pollock." Master’s thesis, University of Texas, Austin, 1984.
Siedell, Daniel Andrew. "An Excavation of Tenth Street: The Failure of Modernism and the Politics of Postwar Historiography (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Painting)." Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1995.
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