Love Affair: A Memoir of Jackson Pollock

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Summary: Still trying to cash in after all these years
Review: A poorly written, self-serving book written by a bit player who is still feeding on Pollock 47 years after his drunken, ignominious death. Pathetic.

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Summary: A love larger than life
Review: Forget the inferior, overstuffed biographies of Pollock - THIS reissue of the 1970's hardcover, with a new, powerful introduction by the author, has everything going for it: fame, excitement, love, historic figures, and it's an engrossing read. You won't these insights elsewhere; the last months of Pollock's life (with the author by his side) are being erased from the Official History! A bond still strong after 44 years.

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Summary: a memoir of jackson pollock?
Review: I saw the motion picture "pollock" and started to take intrest in the life of Jackson Pollock. when I came across this book I got curious and bought it - what can she possibly write about? I was a little amazed: the book was totaly about her! all she wrote about was herself and pollock's great love for her and how he became depended on her completely. she kept going on and on about how he needed love so despretly and how he was never loved before, totally ignoring his wife, Lee Krasner, and the many years she spent with him, standing beside him and helping him become the appreciated artist he is. she described Krasner as a terrifying angry woman that all she did was terrorize Pollock, when she seemed to forget she had her so called love affair with a married man, invading Krasner's house and living there with Pollock while Krasner was in europe, pretending she was married to him.

I dont think this can be considered a memoir of Jackson Pollock. it does speak of the last months of his life, but it gives very little information about him as a person (beside the fact the he could'nt live without Ruth Kligman) and nothing at all about Pollock as an artist. in fact, in that period of time he did not paint at all.

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Summary: a memoir of jackson pollock?
Review: I saw the motion picture "pollock" and started to take intrest in the life of Jackson Pollock. when I came across this book I got curious and bought it - what can she possibly write about? I was a little amazed: the book was totaly about her! all she wrote about was herself and pollock's great love for her and how he became depended on her completely. she kept going on and on about how he needed love so despretly and how he was never loved before, totally ignoring his wife, Lee Krasner, and the many years she spent with him, standing beside him and helping him become the appreciated artist he is. she described Krasner as a terrifying angry woman that all she did was terrorize Pollock, when she seemed to forget she had her so called love affair with a married man, invading Krasner's house and living there with Pollock while Krasner was in europe, pretending she was married to him.

I dont think this can be considered a memoir of Jackson Pollock. it does speak of the last months of his life, but it gives very little information about him as a person (beside the fact the he could'nt live without Ruth Kligman) and nothing at all about Pollock as an artist. in fact, in that period of time he did not paint at all.

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Summary: Was it really love?
Review: It is a facinating read. We get to know Jackson Pollock and his contemporaries. We also get to know his genius, neediness, sadness and depression. Yes, there was a bond there. But the author seemed to lose her "self" in her desire to make him happy. Perhaps, this is 20/20 hindsight but her love for him bordered on obsession. Her happiness, her very being, depended on Jackson Pollock's every whim. I found this book disturbing and heartbreaking.

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Summary: A memoir of Ruth Kligman
Review: It seemed to me that the book was more about Ruth Kligman than Pollock. The majority of the book was devoted to trying to convince the reader how important she was/is to the Pollock legend. I finished the book still knowing less than I wanted to know about Pollock and way more than I wanted to know about Kligman. It is my fault however; the title should have been my clue.

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Summary: Traitorous Art Tart's Account of a Falling Star
Review: Ruth Kligman's account of her "love affair" is tacky, self-serving and poorly written. It's a shame that this adultress continues to live off of a "fame" taken at the expense of the suffering of others through the exploitation of a great artist's demise, a "friend's" death, a undeserving wife, etc. etc.

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Summary: A Tale of Two Children
Review: This is a dreadful little book about the downslide of a great artist and the parasite who attached herself to him like a barnacle. Ruth Kligman has never shown even an ounce of talent for anything on her own, and continues to try to live off the carcass of an artist who, by the time she met him, was on the dark side of a distinguished career. What possible motive could there be for a book that portrays the Big Dripper as a big drip? How could she evince so little feeling for the friend she lost in the tragic accident that claimed Pollock's life? What could this possibly do for his legacy but harm it, as it portrays him as a drunken, self-absorbed infant given to weeping fits and artistic impotence? Kligman gives new meaning to the phrase "with friends like these"--regarding both her dead friend and Pollock.

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Summary: A Tale of Two Children
Review: This is a dreadful little book about the downslide of a great artist and the parasite who attached herself to him like a barnacle. Ruth Kligman has never shown even an ounce of talent for anything on her own, and continues to try to live off the carcass of an artist who, by the time she met him, was on the dark side of a distinguished career. What possible motive could there be for a book that portrays the Big Dripper as a big drip? How could she evince so little feeling for the friend she lost in the tragic accident that claimed Pollock's life? What could this possibly do for his legacy but harm it, as it portrays him as a drunken, self-absorbed infant given to weeping fits and artistic impotence? Kligman gives new meaning to the phrase "with friends like these"--regarding both her dead friend and Pollock.