By Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Jackson Pollock was once greater than a very good artist, he was once an inventive strength of nature. He replaced not just the process Western artwork, yet our very definition of "art." He was once the vital tortured genius, an American Vincent van Gogh, lower from a similar unconforming fabric as his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and James Dean--and plagued by an identical demons; a "cowboy artist" who rose from obscurity to take his position one of the titans of recent artwork, and whose work now command hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here, for the 1st time, is the existence in the back of that amazing achievement--the disjointed formative years, the sibling contention, the sexual ambiguity, and the creative frustration out of which either artist and paintings developed.
Based on greater than 2,000 interviews with 850 humans, Jackson Pollock is the 1st publication to discover the lifetime of a very good artist with the mental intensity that marks the simplest biographies of literary and political figures. In 8 years of analysis the authors have exposed formerly unknown letters and files, received entry to clinical and psychiatric documents, and interviewed rankings of the artist's pals and friends whose tales had by no means been informed. They have been additionally the 1st biographers in 20 years to learn from the cooperation of Pollock's widow, Lee Krasner.
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26 27 Whatever his shortcomings as a father, Al bought Jimi his first electric guitar when he was sixteen, a right-handed instrument that he restrung. Jimi took his guitar everywhere, carrying it in a bag because he didn’t own a case. Neither did he have an amplifier. He went to Pernell Alexander’s house to plug in and play. Jimi’s obsession with music brought him into conflict with his father who wanted him to help with his gardening work. Jimi wasn’t much interested in gardening, and feared his father would confiscate his guitar as a punishment.
It was certainly provincial, conservative and stratified when he grew up there, but 36 27 everybody knew each other; there were plentiful jobs when Kurt was a boy; and it was a safe place for children, with space to play, trees to climb and rivers to explore. Sitting on the bank of the Wishkah river under the Young Street Bridge, at the end of his road, Kurt might have imagined himself in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was an ideal place to make a camp. Later, when Kurt found that he wasn’t welcome at home, he camped for real under the bridge, inspiring the song ‘Something in the Way’.
Brian was one. * The term ‘bipolar disorder’ has come to replace ‘manicdepression’, though the older term is helpfully self-descriptive. Generally, the sufferer experiences mood swings, from mania, where they become over-excited, to depression. Creative people are often bipolar, and the disorder is found in many members of the 27 Club. ‘The parents thought he was just a bad child,’ says Linda. ‘He was * For clarity Linda Lawrence is referred to throughout by her maiden name. ’ Brian also suffered from asthma.