Passage A From the book by Nancy G. Heller. Publisher: Princeton University Press. City: Princeton. Year: 2002. “The early reviews of Pollock’s dripped and poured paintings were largely negative, though several influential writers recognized a spark of something important in his work. Yet in 1949—two years after he had begun making his signature works—Pollock was featured in a magazine article that asked if he was ‘the greatest living painter in the United States?’ This rhetorical—and deliberately inflammatory—question greatly increased the public’s curiosity about the artist, whose celebrity status remains undiminished today.” Passage B Web article from the Purdue OWL website ( ): “If there are more than three authors, you may choose to list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (Latin for “and others”) in place of the subsequent authors’ names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page. (Note that there is a period after “al” in “et al.” Also note that there is never a period after the “et” in “et al.”).” Passage C From a online theatre review ( ): “I suppose you could say that “Peter” is a coming-of-age tale about how Boy comes into his extraordinariness. But it’s equally about our willingness, with the help of some highly skilled guides, to accept the extraordinary, to will ourselves into believing that what the actors tell us is happening is really happening.” “Because he ‘wanted t
o be inside’ his paintings, from 1947 until his death a decade later Pollock typically avoided both easels and stretcher strips. Instead, he unrolled huge lengths of raw canvas (since canvas is simply a kind of cloth, this was like unrolling a bolt of wool or silk) on the floor of his barn-like studio in East Hampton, New York. Then Pollock literally flung paint (and sometimes also dropped bits of plastic, metal springs, or even cigarette butts) onto the canvas as he danced all around it, using brushes, sticks, pierced metal cans, his fingers, or anything else he wanted to add color to the picture. This was hardly a calm, Renaissance-style way of putting a painting together. It also wasn’t neat; Pollock inevitably got paint all over his clothes, the floor, and everything else in range. “The early reviews of Pollock’s dripped and poured paintings were largely negative, though several influential writers recognized a spark of something important in his work. Yet in 1949—two years after he had begun making his signature works—Pollock was featured in a magazine article that asked if he was ‘the greatest living painter in the United States?’ This rhetorical—and deliberately inflammatory—question greatly increased the public’s curiosity about the artist, whose celebrity status remains undiminished today.” I read a brief biography of COMPOSER’S NAME in , and I learned a lot about this composer’s life. While reading about COMPOSER’S NAME, I learned that one of his most famous works was