Onofrio Catacchio
Auteur van Pollock Confidential: A Graphic Novel
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-10-28
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Italia
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Italia
- Geboorteplaats
- Bari, Italia
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This biography in graphic novel form has an interesting twist. Catacchio portrays Jackson Pollock in the peak years of his fame, while he was living with Lee Krasner on Long Island. In the process he talks about Pollock's technique and how it was informed by his background.
The narrative point of view is provided by Dan, a CIA agent who moves to Long Island pretending to be working on his thesis, and seeks to cozy up to Pollock and report back on his progress. This may seem bizarre, but in fact there was a CIA operation called Long Leash that secretly backed Abstract Impressionists like Pollock with serious money, in order to dissuade American artists and art patrons from embracing Communist art. As a former cowboy from Wyoming, Pollock was the perfect unwitting front man for this clandestine operation. This was a complete revelation to me, and gives the book a very different perspective on a relatively familiar life story.… (meer)