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Article: Five painters.(Painting exhibitions of work by Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Lester Johnson, Brice Marden, and Neil Blaine at New York City's The Jewish Museum, DC Moore Gallery, Peter Findlay Gallery, the Whitney Museum, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery)(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- February 1, 1999
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The retrospective of paintings by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art was organized as an effort to define a figure whose place in twentieth-century art has long been formidable. In its scale and presentation, the MOMA show milks both Pollock the artist (ambitious, tumultuous, and flawed) and Pollock the myth (heroic, hard-drinking, and radical) to impressive, if not altogether convincing, effect. Reviews of the exhibition itself have been, on the whole, laudatory, yet the new consensus on Pollock's "mastery" is less certain. Put another way: man and myth aren't as inextricably linked as they once may have been. Even defenders of the status quo admit that Pollock ...
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