Article: The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art.

by Carter Ratcliff, New York. Farrar, Straus and Girou, 1996; 352 pages, $35.

At an odd moment during the opening-titles montage for Robert Hughes's "American Visions" there suddenly spreads in closeup across the screen a transparent reproduction of a Jasper Johns "Target" painting through which can be seen another image, that of Jackson Pollock in motion against a pale blue sky. Traversing the innermost ring of Johns's picture Pollock lets fly from a small paintbrush in his hand a drop of dark paint, which then cascades as if through some cosmic retinal port towards us and onward into space. The well-known image of Pollock (seen from below, distributing pigment, ...

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