{"product_id":"reconstructing-jackson-pollock-volker-renner","title":"Reconstructing Jackson Pollock, Volker Renner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCreated in 1952, Jackson Pollock’s “Convergence” is one of the American artist’s most famous drip paintings. It first came out as a jigsaw puzzle in 1964. Then one of the world’s most difficult puzzles at a mere 340 pieces, it has sold more than 100,000 copies over the decades. Today’s puzzle devotees have the choice of a 1000-piece edition that would seem to make defeat inevitable. Or would it? Give it a shot and you’ll begin to feel the puzzle’s appeal, but you’ll also grasp the unusual challenge it poses: you’ll spot five matching pieces on a good day and not a single one on a bad day—the picture is just too jumbled, the details too apparently unconnected. On amazon.com, one reviewer warns would-be buyers: “May lead to insanity in previously sane people; may bring sanity to previously insane people.” Perhaps the puzzle might have helped Jackson Pollock cope with his mental health issues? More likely, however, it’ll drive previously well-adjusted puzzlers mad and acquaint them with utter futility. What’s certain is that it’ll teach them to look hard: painstaking comparison of the reproduction’s different layers is the only way to solve the riddle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his new artist’s book, Volker Renner offers a training course in such “comparative seeing.” For Reconstructing Jackson Pollock, the artist placed each individual piece of the puzzle on a canvas and took its photograph. Instead of assembling the pieces, he has arranged them in the format that is characteristic of his approach more generally: the sequence. This makes the pieces not only pictures but also a metaphor for photography itself: a photograph never represents more than a segment of the larger totality of reality, and how it relates to other such segments is a question that fuels ongoing debates but—like the Pollock puzzle—is never definitively resolved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublished by Volker Renner and Textem Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e1008 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e120 x 170 mm\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9783864851940\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Volker Renner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46723246162251,"sku":"RJPVR01","price":36.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/files\/c1f59bdac929903e5ec5037732355218.jpg?v=1689160120","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/no\/products\/reconstructing-jackson-pollock-volker-renner","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}