My Pollock father.
The Contemporary Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 25603 |
| Format | 16 x 20 |
| Détails | 176 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782850350726 |
A great American painter, but also a professor of calligraphy and typography, Charles Pollock, Jackson Pollock's elder brother, left few traces of his work before his death in Paris. His daughter, Francesca, and his wife Sylvia, then spent twenty years collecting, archiving, and making known his work and his life, veiled by silence and discretion. Why and for whom did he disappear? What meaning can be given to Charles Pollock's paintings and his silence? Spurred by these questions, Francesca Pollock undertakes to (re)establish a dialogue with the father she lost at the age of 21. The words, which were so rare between them, are then delivered by means of writing in several voices, that of the author, that of Charles Pollock which surfaces from correspondence, his writings and interviews, but also that of the painter's works and his spectators who "speak" much more than anything else.
A great American painter, but also a professor of calligraphy and typography, Charles Pollock, Jackson Pollock's elder brother, left few traces of his work before his death in Paris. His daughter, Francesca, and his wife Sylvia, then spent twenty years collecting, archiving, and making known his work and his life, veiled by silence and discretion. Why and for whom did he disappear? What meaning can be given to Charles Pollock's paintings and his silence? Spurred by these questions, Francesca Pollock undertakes to (re)establish a dialogue with the father she lost at the age of 21. The words, which were so rare between them, are then delivered by means of writing in several voices, that of the author, that of Charles Pollock which surfaces from correspondence, his writings and interviews, but also that of the painter's works and his spectators who "speak" much more than anything else.