Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock

Author: James Martin Gray

Publisher: Santa Monica : Santa Monica Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Jackson Pollock: Memories Arrested in Space is Martin Gray’s remarkable biographical poem on the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter. The narrative chronicles the reckless, adventurous, and often desperate life of the twentieth century’s most pivotal American artist, from his beginnings in the American northwest through his pioneering of a revolutionary new painting technique that came to be known as Abstract Expressionism to his death at the wheel of a car on Long Island when he was only 44 years old. Written entirely in iambic trimeter (the same meter that Gray used to write about Charlie Parker’s life and work in his internationally acclaimed Blues for Bird), Gray’s biographical poem runs more than 3,000 lines. In Jackson Pollock: Memories Arrested in Space, Gray captures the essence of the brilliant yet tortured artist in language that reflects a Pollock painting: spontaneous, beautiful, and haunting, with bursts of energy that touch the soul and make it soar. Art and poetry lovers alike will rejoice in Gray’s homage to a true American icon.

W.H.K. Pollock
W.H.K. Pollock

Author: Olimpiu G. Urcan

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1476631409

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During his first years in America, William Henry Krause Pollock participated in some of the most important American chess events of the 19th century. Pollock played matches against strong players like Charles Moehle, John L. McCutcheon, Jackson W. Showalter and Eugene Delmar. This biography analyzes in great detail Pollock's chess play, as well as his career and life in England, Ireland and America. His American years unveil even more about the American chess landscape during the first half of 1890s, one of the most interesting periods in American chess history. Offered here are an unprecedented collection of annotated games played by Pollock (around 500), historical photographs and line drawings. Sources include historical chess journals and magazines with chess columns from America, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Feminism
Feminism

Author: Griselda Pollock

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2020-02-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784784652

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A radical examination of feminism's place in our cultural memory How did we come to represent the history of feminism in terms of waves and generations? What are the effects of such powerful metaphors? In Feminism: A Bad Memory? Griselda Pollock analyses the cultural memory of feminism through the concept of trauma: an event that cannot be immediately digested because of the enormity of the shock it represents to the system, and especially to its potential subjects, feminists. Instead of plotting generations and waves and accepting selective versions of the feminist tradition, Pollock suggests that we can escape the familial metaphors and their burden of resentment and reaction. What happens when we pose feminism as a becoming-political that is creatively radical because it continuously throws up new conflicts, which become visible precisely because of the working through of a previous one? Drawing on a range of theories of the political to examine the issue of challenge and change, Pollock suggests psychoanalytical theories can illuminate the traumatic force of feminism over the twentieth century.

Remembering 1916
Remembering 1916

Author: Richard S. Grayson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1316565386

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The year 1916 witnessed two events that would profoundly shape both politics and commemoration in Ireland over the course of the following century. Although the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme were important historical events in their own right, their significance also lay in how they came to be understood as iconic moments in the emergence of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, politics, anthropology and cultural studies, this volume explores how the memory of these two foundational events has been constructed, mythologised and revised over the course of the past century. The aim is not merely to understand how the Rising and the Somme came to exert a central place in how the past is viewed in Ireland, but to explore wider questions about the relationship between history, commemoration and memory.

Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records
Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 3849642569

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This edition is one the most complete Stevensonia collections. It contains a wealth of his essays, memories and records. The essays brought together under this title are chiefly Stevenson's reflections, ten years afterwards, on the experiences and friendships of his youth. They represent a proportion of his contributions of this kind to reviews and magazines, from 1882 to 1887. Some of the essays are : The Foreigner at Home, Old Mortality, Pastoral, The Manse, Thomas Stevenson, Talk and Talkers, The Character of Dogs and A Penny Plain.

Memories and Portraits
Memories and Portraits

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13:

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Table of Contents CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME CHAPTER II. SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES [15] CHAPTER III. OLD MORTALITY I II III IV CHAPTER IV. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE I II III CHAPTER V. AN OLD SCOTCH GARDENER CHAPTER VI. PASTORAL CHAPTER VII. THE MANSE CHAPTER VIII. MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET I CHAPTER IX. THOMAS STEVENSON—CIVIL ENGINEER CHAPTER X. TALK AND TALKERS CHAPTER XI. TALK AND TALKERS [105] II CHAPTER XII. THE CHARACTER OF DOGS CHAPTER XIII. A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED CHAPTER XIV. A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S CHAPTER XV. A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE CHAPTER XVI. A HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE [168a] II

Exceptional Spaces
Exceptional Spaces

Author: Della Pollock

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1469644169

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Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for understanding historical practices and a mode of historical production itself--performance in history and performance as history--the contributors chart new directions in such fields as cultural studies, contemporary historiography, museum studies, and life narrative research. Geographically and chronologically, the collection's sweep is broad--ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, from Victorian theater to commissions of inquiry in Kenya, from dissent in post-Soviet Lithuania to plantation tours in the American South. Together, the essays make up a work that is truly interdisciplinary in breadth and focus. By combining the methodologies of history and performance studies, the contributors illuminate the structure and function of cultural production in all its forms. The contributors are Michael S. Bowman, Ruth Laurion Bowman, Elizabeth Gray Buck, Kay Ellen Capo, David William Cohen, Tracy Davis, Kirk W. Fuoss, Shannon Jackson, D. Soyini Madison, Carol Mavor, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, Della Pollock, Jeffrey H. Richards, and Joseph R. Roach.