Jackson Pollock Bibliography: Selected General BooksThis section lists selected citations that either discuss issues related to Pollock’s art and life or provide relevant background information. how to search
Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics: An Anthology. Edited by Clifford Ross. New York: Abrams, 1990.
Abstract Expressionsim: A Critical Record. Edited by David and Cecile Shapiro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
American Abstract Expressionism. Edited by David Thistlewood. Tate Gallery Liverpool Critical Forum, Volume 1. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1993.
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.
Ashton, Dore. The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Benton, Thomas Hart. An Artist in America. 4th rev. ed. Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, 1983.Berardi, Marianne. Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton. St. Joseph, Missouri: Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 1993.
Clark, T. J. Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Craven, David. Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent during the McCarthy Period. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Crow, Thomas. Modern Art in the Common Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1996.
Frascina, Francis, ed. Pollock and After: The Critical Debate. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Fried, Michael. Three American Painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella. Cambridge, Mass.: The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1965. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture 1940–1970. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969.
Gibson, Ann. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
Belgrad, Daniel. The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Gibson, Ann. Issues in Abstract Expressionism: The Artist-Run Periodicals. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990.
Gruen, John. The Party’s Over Now: Reminiscences of the ‘50s — New York’s Artists, Writers, Musicians and Their Friends. New York: Viking Press, 1967.
Guggenheim, Peggy. Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim. New York: Dial Press, 1946.
Guggenheim, Peggy. Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict. New York: Macmillan, 1960. Reprint ed., New York: Universe Books, 1979.
Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Henderson, Joseph L. Thresholds of Initiation. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1967.
Jones, Caroline A. Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Krauss, Rosalind. The Optical Unconscious. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1993.
Leja, Michael. Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993.
O’Connor, Francis V. Art for the Millions. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973.
Polcari, Stephen. Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Rose, Barbara. American Art Since 1900. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Originally published as American Art Since 1900: A Critical History. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1967.
Rubenfeld, Florence. Clement Greenberg: A Life. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970.
Sandler, Iriving. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Sawin, Martica. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., by Harvard University Press, 1983.
Wescher, Herta. Collage. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968.
Wood, Paul, et. al. Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 1993.
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