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Relevant passages:
Diedrich Diederichsen «Artists, Auteurs, and Star. On the Human Factor in the Culture Industry»
John Miller «No More Boring Art»
Works by Jackson Pollock:
Jackson Pollock
born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming (USA); 1930/33 studies at the Arts Students League, New York; studies paintings by Picasso, Orozco and Siqueiros; 1936 participation at the «Experimental Workshop» in New York, founded by Siqueiros in order to racially modernize the form, expression and technique of the art in the US; »controlled randomness» becomes Pollock's artistic guiding line; 1943 first solo exhibitiona at Peggy Guggenheims Galerie Art of the Century; 1945 married to Lee Krasner; 1946 development of the first abstract paintings by dripping and pouring; died 1956 in New York.
