Jackson Pollock : Drawing into Painting

25 x 28cm 96pp good hardback in dust jacket, slightly browned, with nicks to top rear edge and lower rear. With text by Bernice Rose together with black and white reproductions. showing works by the American artist, a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, he was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, because Pollock covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects.