dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
verfasserin/verfasser: Elizabeth L. Langhorne
titel: Pollock's dream of a Biocentric art: The challenge of his and Peter Blake's Ideal Museum
+: in: Oliver A.I. Botar and Isabel Wünsche, Biocentrism and Modernism, Burlington VT, 2011, p. 227–235
«Abstract Expressionism invites interpretation both as the end of an antropocentric tradition of painting that goes back to the Renaissance, and as an attempt to leave that tradition behind in favor of what can be called a Biocentric approach. […]
Greenberg was concerned that in his 'all-over' poured paintings Pollock was destroying easel painting. He was right. But in leaving panel painting behind, Pollock was struggling to make, rather than the human subject, 'life' of 'nature' the center of his art. In this respect, Pollock's abstractions invite discussion of the Schopenhauer- and Nietzsche-indebted aesthetics of the Blaue Reiter group […]. »